Laila Benchekroun, has 30 years of experience in the tax administration and is currently the Head of International Taxation and Cooperation Division, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Moroccan General Administration of Taxes. She is a treaty negotiator for Morocco and competent authority in terms of exchange of information and MAP under tax treaties. Moreover, Laila is a TADAT assessor and an IMF/FAD short-term expert. She is also the secretary general of the Moroccan IFA Branch and a member of the Centre for Studies in African Taxation (CSAT) external technical committee.
Before 2009, she was a Senior Research Associate at the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) within the Africa-Middle East Knowledge Department. Laila holds an MBA in Finance from Robert Anderson School of Management (University of New Mexico, USA) and an LL.M in International Tax Law from Leiden University (International Tax Centre, Netherlands). She has teaching experience at the International Tax Centre (Adv LL.M International Tax Law) and the University of Amsterdam (Advanced Master’s in International Tax Law).