WIN Committee

Interview with Ana Claudia Utumi, Chair of WIN

Ana Claudia Utumi (Brazil) became a member of IFA in 2001, though her knowledge and interest about IFA started together with her career. “I started working at Coopers & Lybrand in 1992 and due to my English skills, which was not common at that time, I started to be in international tax matters since I was a trainee. During all these years, from 1992 to 2004, IFA was present in my researches through the Cahiers, in my studies of international taxation and in my day-by-day practice in Brazil.

I started attending the IFA Congresses in 2004 in Vienna and my first opportunity as a panelist occurred in 2007 in Kyoto at Seminar A (International Taxation of Emission Allowances). After that, I was fortunate to be a panelist in 2009 in Vancouver (Subject 2), 2012 in Boston (Chair, Seminar G) and 2013 in Copenhagen (Recent Developments).”

From 2010 to 2016 Ana Claudia has been appointed as a member of the Permanent Scientific. “From my personal story at IFA, even though we still see panels with more men than women, I do believe that IFA supports female tax practitioners and that women may seek form more space within the Association. At the PSC I can witness the concern of the Chair and Vice-Chair in having more women on board. My advice to IFA female members? To be more engaged with their local IFA Branches and activities therein, and be more in contact with PSC members to make yourself known and to be suggested as a panelist.

Interview with Antonella Magliocco, former member at IFA’s Executive Committee

The entrance of Antonella Magliocco (Italy) in IFA coincided with her appointment as the Italian Branch Reporter for the 2006 Cahier resulting in the attendance of her first IFA Congress in 2005 in Buenos Aires. “On that occasion being a woman didn’t weight too heavily on me, as I hadn’t the impression to be considered differently from my fellow male Branch Reporters. Over the course of the years that I have been active at IFA, I personally never felt any real intolerance, prejudice of stereotyping, which are still dominant in many sectors. The challenge consists in offering enough female representation as reporters and panelists, coming from the IFA Branches.”

In 2012 Antonella was appointed as a member of IFA’s Executive Committee. “Even though we are still in a minority around the table, our work in IFA over the upcoming years will be to facilitate the participation of women in IFA governance and in scientific panels, in a bottom up approach that will feed the female tide much more.”