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Dan Witt, Vice Chairman
International Tax & Investment Center

Daniel A. Witt is the president of the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC), which he helped found in September 1993. ITIC is a multinational, nonprofit organization that is helping lower the barriers to tax, trade, and investment in transition economies by facilitating the exchange of information and know-how transfer between business executives, academic experts, and government officials. It has offices in Washington, D.C., USA; Moscow, Russia; Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan; Baku, Azerbaijan; Amman, Jordan; Kiev, Ukraine; Manila, The Philippines; and London, UK. ITIC has worked in over 50 countries and has conducted training and education programs for over 3,000 Government and Parliamentary officials.

Since 1991 Mr. Witt has led over 30 private sector delegations to Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Libya, Azerbaijan and Vietnam to hold meetings with top finance and taxation, Government and Parliamentary officials. He has also chaired over 25 international tax and investment conferences on five continents. One such visit, in March 1993, led to the signing of cooperative protocols between his delegation and the Russian and Kazakhstan governments, which led to the founding of ITIC. In May 2003, a protocol was signed with the Ministry of Taxes of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He is the co-founder of the Asia Pacific Tax Forum and Middle East North Africa Tax Forum, which annually brings together tax policy officials, academics, and industry representatives from 14 Asia-Pacific countries and 18 MENA countries, respectively.

Prior to assuming the duties as president of the Center, Mr. Witt was Executive Director of the Tax Foundation, the oldest tax and budget research organization in the United States. Prior to joining the Tax Foundation, Mr. Witt was Vice President and Director of Membership with Citizens for a Sound Economy, a 250,000-member Washington-based public interest group. He also served as a consultant to President Reagan’s Commission on Privatization.

Before joining Citizens for a Sound Economy, Mr. Witt spent two years traveling in the Pacific and South East Asia as a Rotary International Foundation Fellow. He was visiting economist with the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research and Victoria University of Wellington, where he published a book on the deregulation of the New Zealand motorcar industry.

He received a Bachelor of Business Administration (magna cum laude) in public administration and an MBA in finance from Western Michigan University. In June 1999 Mr. Witt was elected an Honorary Professor of Economics of the Kazakh State Academy of Management. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Eurasia Foundation. He also serves on the Council Executive Board and as the District Chairman for the Boy Scouts of America in Washington, D.C., a founding director on the Board of the North America-Kyrgyz Trade and Development Council, and a Director of the Hermitage Museum Foundation.