Melinda Brown

Senior Transfer Pricing Advisor at OECD

Speaker

Melinda Brown is a senior advisor at the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA) with over 20 years’ experience in international tax, specialising in all aspects of transfer pricing practice, policy and law design. Melinda is an active member of the UN Transfer Pricing Subcommittee. As the head of a team supporting developing country members of the Inclusive Framework, Melinda has worked to assist capacity-constrained countries in addressing Base Erosion and Profit Shifting. Melinda has been the main author of the OECD’s reports on Developing Countries and International Tax presented to G20 Finance Ministers each year since 2021. In 2022, Melinda took up a position as a senior tax advisor in the OECD’s Jakarta office where she is responsible for co-ordinating the OECD’s relationship on tax matters with countries in Asia and the Pacific. Her current area of focus involves supporting jurisdictions in the region to participate in and implement the two-pillar solution to address the tax challenges of the digitalisation of the economy.
Before joining the OECD, Melinda was a competent authority for Australia and a senior transfer pricing specialist at the Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Treasury.