Conferences and workshops I have organised to connect academic research with policy and practice.
An intensive COBRA program for PhD students and early-career scholars on empirical tax research — lectures on frontier research, research pitches, and feedback sessions, with tax systems as empirical settings. Fully booked.
Public launch of COBRA — the Mannheim Center for Corporate Behavior and Regulation Analysis, which I founded and lead as Academic Director. COBRA is a platform for rigorous, data-driven research on regulation, taxation, financial markets, corporate decision-making, and public policy, connecting academic research with policy and business practice.
COBRA workshops for faculty and researchers on how AI agents such as Claude Code can support the research process — practical applications, common pitfalls, and new data infrastructure for research. Sessions by Philipp Doerrenberg, Marcel Olbert, and Paul Seidel; slides and recordings available via the COBRA events page.
Co-hosted with Rebecca Lester (Stanford GSB). Brought together leading policymakers, practitioners, and scholars on two increasingly important trends — AI for businesses' tax functions and tax policy for sustainability. The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development prepared a three-part blog series with key insights.
Co-hosted with Rebecca Lester (Stanford GSB). Two days with leading policymakers, practitioners, and scholars on pressing global tax issues, with a keynote by Alenka Turnsek (EY) on the world's more than 3,000 environmental taxes. Speakers included Achim Pross (OECD), Timothy Power (HM Treasury), Pat Brown (PwC), Christoph Spengel (Mannheim), Michael Devereux (Oxford), and Raffaele Russo (Chiomenti). Academic sessions covered tax and public finance in developing countries, carbon leakage, emission taxes and air pollution, and wealth taxation and migration of the very wealthy, plus a PhD poster session.
