Marie Lamensch

Marie Lamensch is Research Professor of International and European Tax Law at the Institute for European Studies and the Law Faculty of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is also visiting Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a legal adviser on tax Cassation cases for the Belgian law firm Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick. Her main research topics include VAT and European Taxation. Thanks to her specific expertise in the area of VAT, she has become a member of relevant expert groups of the OECD, the World Customs Organisation and the EU Commission. She also gives training at the IBFD's International Tax Academy and works as Technical Editor of the International VAT Monitor. She previously acted as researcher for the G20 task force on the Financial Transactions Tax, practiced as a lawyer in Brussels and Luxembourg and worked as teaching assistant in contract law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Marie holds a Law Degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and an LLM degree in international and European Law from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel She obtained her Doctorate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in July 2014 and her PhD dissertation was awarded the 2015 Maurice Lauré Prize (International Fiscal Association).

In addition to her native French, Marie is fluent in English and has a good knowledge of Dutch.

Marie is married and mother of two daughters.