Christophe Waerzeggers is a tax lawyer and senior counsel in the Financial and Fiscal Law Unit of the IMF’s Legal Department. Before joining the IMF, he was a lecturer in tax and comparative tax law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and a guest lecturer at various universities around the world, including Sydney Law School in Australia, the Norwegian School of Management, the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International in Clermont-Ferrand (France), and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He also worked as a short-term expert for the IMF, providing tax legal drafting assistance to a wide variety of IMF member countries, and as a tax consultant for the World Bank and DFID. He holds LLMs in law and tax law from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium