Sam Sim

Co-Founder at WTS TAXISE

Mr Sim was Regional Vice-President (Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia and Latin America), Tax Executive Institute and chair of Capital Markets Tax Committee Transfer Pricing sub-committee. He has led global teams as Deputy Global Head of Transfer Pricing at a leading European MNE and Transfer Pricing Geo Leader for EMEA and Asia-Pacific in the largest US global Technology MNE. He is a member of the Income Tax Review Board that hears income tax appeal cases. He has multiple board level appointments including on audit and risk and disciplinary committees. He is passionate in digital taxation and transfer pricing, holds an appointment as research fellow at the Center for Artificial Intelligence at SMU and has co-authored IEEE and IBM Research papers on Blockchain. This is in addition to graduate level teaching at the Master of Tax programme at Singapore University of Social Science, University of Leiden's Executive Tax Program, Vienna University’s Transfer Pricing program and IBFD programmes. Sam is the author of The Logic and Practice of Transfer Pricing (Lexis-Nexis), Singapore Transfer Pricing Masterguide 2018/19 (CCH) and Editor of Asia Voices: BEPS and Beyond (IBFD). He was a tax attorney in New York, a CPA and holds graduate degrees in Law (NYU LL.M.(Tax), Economics (M.A., Cambridge University) and Accounting (MPA, SMU).