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Sergey Kislyak was appointed Russian Ambassador to the United States in 2008. Prior to that he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Belgium and Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO. Moreover, he held the positions of Director of the Department of Security Affairs and Disarmament and Director of the Department of International Scientific and Technical Cooperation of the Foreign Ministry of Russia. He has vast experience in Russian foreign affairs, particularly with regards to the United States. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies.

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While the full political and economic implications of the June 2016 referendum to take the UK out of the EU remain unknown (and indeed unknowable), it is possible to already gauge some of the potential institutional implications that will result regardless of the details of the divorce settlement ultimately negotiated.  Among the various institutional effects will be a shift in the partisan dynamics within the European Parliament and a rebalancing of the various coalition patterns within the Council and the European Council, while the Commission and the European Court of Justice will be arguably less effected. The long term political implications of these anticipated changes are not immediately clear. To some degree the long term implications of Brexit for the functioning of the EU will depend on the outcomes of a number of critical upcoming national elections, which themselves may be impacted by the perceived groundswell of support across Europe for Euro-skeptic and anti-establishment parties following the Brexit vote. The largest impact of Brexit may not be the tangible institutional and political dynamics caused by the British departure from the EU, but rather from the critical support the Brexit vote has provided for Euro-skeptic actors across the EU.

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Amie Kreppel is a Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) and the founding Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (JMCE) at the University of Florida (2007- present). She also served as the founding Director of the University of Florida’s Title VI funded Center for European Studies (CES) from 2003-2011. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. Dr. Kreppel has written extensively on the political institutions of Europe in general and the European Union and Italy more specifically. Her publications include a book on the Development of the European Parliament and Supranational Party System (2002), and two edited volumes on decision making in the EU (2015) and politics in Italy (2014), as well as articles in a wide variety of journals including Comparative Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of European Public Policy and the Journal of Common Market Studies.

According to the OECD, corporate taxation has steadily fallen since 1994 and today represents around 8.5 per cent of all taxes raised by governments across the globe. The proliferation of tax-efficient structures that route profits to low tax countries in the form of interest payments and royalties has been a big drain on revenues. The European Commission has made several unfruitful attempts to coordinate ‘anti-avoidance’ measures. In a recent effort to crack down on ‘base erosion and profit shifting’ [BEPS] to safeguard the future of corporate tax and curb competition between Member States based aggressive tax rulings, the European Commission has embarked on a ‘fairness’ crusade using antitrust prerogatives. Apple, Starbucks, Amazon, McDonalds and many more others have been accused of benefiting from illegal State aid resulting in orders to pay (back) billions of euros. Are American companies really being targeted by the European Commission? How will corporate taxation in the European Union evolve from here?

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Jacques' State aid experience spans more than two decades, during which time he has acted for beneficiaries, competitors and Member States before the European Commission, EU courts and national courts. He co-directed and co-authored studies for the European Commission on the enforcement of State aid rules at the national level (2006 and 2009), which contributed to the Commission's Recovery and Enforcement Notices in 2007 and 2009 respectively. He co-edited a book on the Enforcement of EU State aid law at national level - 2010 - Reports from the 27 Member States (Lexxion, October 2010), and has written quarterly comments on State aid case law and the Commission’s decisional practice in the journal Concurrences since 2004 (together with EU officials).

Jacques also publishes widely on various other EU constitutional, competition and regulatory issues.  He is a founding member of the Global Competition Law Centre (College of Europe, Scientific Council and Executive Committee). He graduated from the University of Liège (Belgium, 1987) and from the College of Europe (Bruges, 1988), and teaches competition law (State aid aspects) at the University of Liège and at the Brussels School of Competition.

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Yaniss has over 15 years of experience in EU Policy, international trade and strategic business development. Yaniss started his career in 2000 in Brussels as an expert advisor on international trade and trade negotiations within the WTO's Doha Development Agenda where he advised governments, corporations and trade associations on a range of intricate political and legal challenges including investment promotion, cultural services and goods, defense contracting an free trade. In 2007, Yaniss joined AHEL, the consulting arm of The International Institute for Strategic Studies in London where he focused on advising F500 companies at executive and board level on geopolitical and military risk, investment policy development. In this role he supported the business expansion of European and US companies in the Far and Near East.

In more recent years Yaniss has worked in senior positions for leading global law firms assisting them with their regional expansion, client development strategies and legal services packaging.

Yaniss holds a JD from the University of Gent, a Masters from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Chicago Booth.