Marie Lamensch is Research Professor of International and European Tax Law at the IES and the Law Faculty of the VUB. She is also guest Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a member of relevant expert groups of the OECD, the World Customs Organisation and the EU Commission. Marie Lamensch also guest lectures at the IBFD's International Tax Academy and works as Technical Editor of the International VAT Monitor. She previously acted as researcher for the G20 task force on the Financial Transactions Tax, practiced as a lawyer in Brussels and Luxembourg and worked as teaching assistant in contract law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She holds a Law Degree from the ULB and an LLM degree in international and European Law from the VUB. She obtained her Doctorate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in July 2014 and her PhD dissertation was awarded the 2015 Maurice Lauré Prize (International Fiscal Association).