DCID

Expertise:
International Taxation
International Public Finance

Bio/Profile
Mr. Alvarez has been an instructor with the Tax Analysis and Revenue Forecasting Program (TARF), formerly at Harvard University,since 1995. Mr. Alvarez has more than 13 years of experience dealing with complex issues in tax policy and administration as a senior government official at federal and state levels in Mexico. Over this period, he has been involved in a wide range of tax policy and administration issues and reforms, including transfer pricing valuation, negotiations with multinational corporations and tax authorities from tax treaty partners, developing tax reform proposals for further review and approval by the Congress, designing tax analysis and revenue forecasting models to assess the impact of tax reforms proposals, analyzing and proposing fiscal decentralization reforms, managing tax incentives, conducting studies on tax evasion and voluntary compliance, and representing the Government of Mexico on various working groups of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs of the OECD.

Mr. Alvarez has been a faculty member on a variety of workshops conducted at Harvard and Duke Universities,and in Jordan, Ghana, Tanzania, the Philippines and Vietnam. Healso participated in various workshops on Investment Appraisal and Risk Analysis held in India, Malaysia and with the World Bank. Mr. Alvarez has a Master of Public Policy from the Autonomous Institute of Technology of Mexico and he graduated from the International Tax Program at Harvard Law School in 1995.