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Prof Dr Madeleine Simonek

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Work Department

Zurich / Taxation

Position

Madeleine Simonek is a professor of law and holds the Chair for Swiss and International Tax Law at the University of Zurich. She is Of Counsel in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Taxation Group in Zurich. She regularly provides clients as well as tax authorities with tax legal opinions on unsolved question and mainly serves clients in complicated tax litigation cases and tax structuring.

Career

2009 – Full Professor of Swiss and International Tax Law, University of Zurich

2004 – Of Counsel at Schellenberg Wittmer

2004 – Professor of Tax Law, University of Lucerne

Languages

  • German
  • English

Memberships

  • Board member of the Swiss branch of the International Fiscal Association and a member of the Federal Commission on Tax Harmonization within Switzerland
  • For several years, she was a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association and of the Academic Committee of the European Association of Tax Law Professors
  • Academic Head of the Postgraduate Program on International Tax Law at the University of Zurich

Education

1996 – Certified Tax Expert

1994 – Dr. iur., University of Bern

1989 – Bar Admission in Switzerland

1986 – lic. iur., University of Bern

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