World-renowned international tax experts Professor Philip Baker, Professor Guglielmo Maisto and Professor Pasquale Pistone will be visiting lecturers at the Malta Institute of Management, which once again will provide unique opportunities to the financial services sector in Malta.
Every year MIM provides the sector with new opportunities. In 2006 The Advanced Diploma in International Taxation, which is still running successfully, was introduced. In 2007 MIM held the Diploma in VAT Compliance, The International Taxation Conference and now the EC Tax Law courses. In November, MIM will have Dr Christiana HJI Panayi , Lecturer in Tax Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies Queen Mary, University of London.
Guglielmo Maisto founded Maisto e Associati in 1991. He is Professor of Tax Law at the Catholic University of Piacenza; he has acted as a consultant to the Ministry for European Community Affairs and is the chairman of the delegated Board of Trustees of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam.
He is chairman of the legal and tax committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy and represents the Italian Association of Industries at the OECD Business Industry Advisory Committee in Paris. He is a member of several international law societies and on the editorial board of various Italian and foreign tax legal journals. He is a member of the executive committee of the International Fiscal Association and has acted as general and national reporter at several of its annual congresses.
Pasquale Pistone is fluent in seven EU languages and graduated in Law magna cum laude at the Federico II University of Naples in 1990. He gained his Ph.D. cum dignitate publicationis in International and Comparative Tax Law at the University of Genoa in 2000. Over the past decade he has lectured at a number of universities and scientific institutions in Europe and South America, as well as reporting on a number of international tax conferences and seminars.
He is an associate professor of tax law at the University of Salerno, where he has been lecturer since 2001, and a member of the Faculty of various LL.M. programmes in International and European Tax Law across Europe (European Tax College, Leiden and Vienna LL.M. programmes in International Tax Law). Furthermore, he is member of the editorial board of the specialised international tax review Intertax and author of two books and more than 50 publications in five EU languages.