Brief Bio

Dr Leopoldo Parada, LLM, PhD, is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Tax Law at King’s College London, the Dickson Poon School of Law. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in Tax Law and Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP) at the University of Leeds School of Law. In the past, he also held academic positions in Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands, and practised full-time for a decade as a tax lawyer in Brazil, Chile, and the United States. Dr Parada also works as a tax policy advisor for different governments and international organisations around the world and has participated in different legislative tax reforms worldwide, including most recently the introduction of interest limitation rules in Indonesia and the OECD Pillar 2 in Curaçao.

His research focuses primarily on the international implications of base erosion and profit shifting, tax treaties, and the digitalisation of the economy. He is the author of a monograph with Wolters Kluwer (2018, with a second edition in 2024). A second co-authored monograph with Oxford University Press is expected in 2026-27. He is also editor of two collected volumes with Edward Elgar Publishing (2022) and Wolters Kluwer, Eucotax Series (2020). Dr Parada has also more than 60 academic publications in recognised international tax law journals, such as the British Tax Review, Florida Tax Review, Columbia Journal of Tax Law, and Virginia Tax Review, among others, and he has been a speaker in more than 100 specialised venues around the world. His opinions are frequently featured both in written and visual specialised and non-specialised media outlets, both inside and outside the United Kingdom. Most notably, his academic work has been cited in the 2019 Report on Digital Services Taxes elaborated by the United States Congressional Research Service, and by the European Union Advocate General in his opinion on the case C-342/20, concerning investment funds in Finland. Dr Parada has also collaborated for several years with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in important investigations related to tax evasion and tax avoidance, including the “Pandora Papers” released in 2021.

Dr Parada is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars in the UK, the European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP), and the International Fiscal Association (IFA, UK branch). He also holds a seat in the International Tax Compliance Task Force that advises the Finance Minister of Curaçao, and he is a member of the Tax Committee of Experts of the Joint Italian/Arab Chamber of Commerce and the Gulf Cooperation Council Tax Law Experts’ Arena Group. In 2020, Dr Parada was recognised by the “TaxCOOP 35 Leaders of the Future in Taxation” in Canada as one of the most important tax policy experts worldwide.