General Reporters of IFA Cahiers

João Félix Pinto Nogueira, PhD in Tax Law, is Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University (“Universidade Católica Portuguesa”). He is Deputy Academic Chairman at IBFD and team manager of IBFD Academic. He is honorary associate professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and regular visiting lecturer at several universities. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the World Tax Journal, of the Global Tax Treaty Commentaries, of the Doctoral Series and of the International Tax Studies. He is a member of the list of independent persons of standing of the European Commission and, as such, authorised to serve as arbitrator for the purposes of the EU tax dispute resolution directive. He was a lawyer at one of Portugal's most reputed tax law firms. His areas of expertise are international and European tax law, fields in which he has published a dissertation and several articles and book chapters. Dr Nogueira has more than twenty years of experience in teaching at both the graduate and post-graduate levels and is currently overseeing several master's courses on EU and international tax law, taught in different languages.

He has extensive experience in supervising academic works (at the master's, doctoral and postdoctoral levels), including several prize-winning theses. He is regularly invited to present at conferences and seminars on both EU and international taxation and is frequently appointed as a national reporter for Portugal. Besides his scientific activities at IBFD, he collaborates actively with research centres in several EU countries. For several years, Dr Nogueira served as co-arbitrator of the IBFD-KU Leuven International and European Tax Moot Court Competition, responsible for drafting the cases. Since 2018, he has been appointed as judge of the final rounds. His experience also comprises governmental consultancy, in which context he has been asked to assess, advise and train several tax authorities, including some of the most advanced in the world. He has lectured or been scientifically active in more than 30 countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia.

He is a member of the EATLP, IFA, IFA Portugal (Associação Fiscal Portuguesa) and IBDT. He is the Vice-President of the AFP / IFA Portugal. He is a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of IFA Central. He is a member (and the scientific secretary) of the ECJ Task Force of the Confédération Fiscale Européenne. He is also a member of the Executive Board of the ILADT (Directorio). He is one of members of the LOC (Local Organizing Committee) in charge of organizing the 2025 Annual Congress of the International Fiscal Association, which will be held in Lisbon. He is a member of the editorial board and council of several periodicals on international taxation and frequently acts as an external peer reviewer.

Jinyan Li is Professor of Tax Law and former Interim Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is currently the co-director of the LLM Tax program. She has authored, co-authored and co-edited numerous books, including: Income Tax at 100 Years: Essays and Reflections on the Income War Tax Act (2017); International Taxation in Canada (multiple editions); Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law (multiple editions). She is the co-author chapter 13 (Capital Gains) of the Global Tax Treaty Commentaries on IBFD Tax Research Platform, and a member of the editorial board of World Tax Journal. Her work has been cited by Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada in Deans Knight Income Corp., Alta Energy and MacDonald. Professor Li is an recipient of Tax Excellence Award (2021) (Ontario Bar Association), Lifetime Contribution Award (2017) (CTF), Academic Excellence Award (2007) (CALT) and D.J. Sherbaniuk Distinguished Writing Award (1999) (CTF).

Dr. Eivind Furuseth (Ph.D. and adv. LL.M) is an associate professor and Head of Department at the Department of Law and Governance at the Norwegian Business School Bl. Before joining the Norwegian Business School BI, he worked as a tax lawyer at KPMG Law for four years with a main focus on international tax law and five years at the Norwegian tax authorities. After having worked for about three years at the tax authorities, he went to Leiden, the Netherlands, and studied for one year at the International Tax Center in Leiden (ITC) where he obtained an advanced LL.M. in international tax.
Further, Dr. Furuseth is a board member of the Nordic Tax Research Council, a member of the academic committee of the European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP), editor of the Norwegian tax journal "Skatterett", responsible for updating IBFD's information regarding the individual and corporate tax system in Norway, responsible for legal comments on direct and indirect tax law at Karnov Group Norway and member of the editing board of the Nordic Tax Journal. Furuseth has also a 20% position at the University of Stavanger, Norway.
Dr. Furuseth's main areas of expertise are domestic and international tax law, including EU/EEA law and abuse of law.