Appointment of Kasper Dziurdź as Professor of International Tax Law

As of 1 September 2022, Dr. Kasper Dziurdź will succeed Prof. Rainer Prokisch who will retire in October 2022. Kasper Dziurdź currently works as a Senior Tax Manager at KPMG and he also teaches in the field of Tax Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna).

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After obtaining his PhD at WU Vienna in 2012, he conducted postdoctoral research at the same university which he completed with a Habilitation in 2018. Kasper specialises in international and European tax law and in particular tax treaty law, but he has also conducted extensive research in income and corporate tax law, VAT and tax procedural law. In addition, for his Habilitation, he has gained extensive knowledge of WTO law and general concepts of non-discrimination. As far as teaching is concerned, he will primarily be involved in the Master's programmes, including the LL.M in International and European Tax Law. He will also conduct research at the Maastricht Centre for Taxation.

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