Sophie Chatel to head OECD’s tax treaty unit

International Tax Review is part of Legal Benchmarking Limited, 1-2 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8ND

Copyright © Legal Benchmarking Limited and its affiliated companies 2025

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement

Sophie Chatel to head OECD’s tax treaty unit

sophie-chatel-100 x 90

Sophie Chatel has been appointed as the head of the tax treaty unit in the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration.

Chatel, who works at Canada’s Department of Finance, will begin her new role on September 6 2017.

She has been working at the Canadian Department of Finance since 2008, serving as the associate chief of tax treaties and international tax.

Chatel also worked as the director of the international tax, financial sector and GST division at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) in 2015-16.

Earlier in her career, she worked at the CRA from 2002 to 2008 as a senior officer, and then as a senior adviser. Prior to this, she spent six years as a tax adviser in the private sector.

more across site & shared bottom lb ros

More from across our site

Identifying who will bear the costs and concerns around confidentiality are issues yet to be resolved, advisers say
As multinationals embed tax technology into their TP functions, a new breed of systems – built on multi-model databases – is quietly transforming intercompany pricing logic
The president described it as ‘one of the most important cases in the history of our country’; in other news, Portugal established a VAT group regime
Clients are facing increased TP audit scrutiny in Hungary. DLA Piper Hungary is therefore using AI and advanced analytics to augment its advice, the firm’s head of TP says
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and MinterEllisonRuddWatts were among the firms that advised on the deal
AI will mean fewer entry-level roles in tax but also the emergence of new jobs, according to tax expert Isabella Barreto
As World Tax unveils its much-anticipated rankings for 2026, we focus on standout performances by PwC, KPMG and Deloitte across the Asia-Pacific region
The partnership model was looking antiquated even before the UK chancellor’s expected tax raid on LLPs was revealed. An additional tax burden may finally kill it off
The US’s GILTI regime will not be forced upon American multinationals in foreign jurisdictions, Bloomberg has reported; in other news, Ropes & Gray hired two tax partners from Linklaters
APAs should provide a pragmatic means to agree to an arm's-length outcome for an Australian entity and for the ATO, the tax authority said
Gift this article