Tax Notes International Person Of The Year: Grace Perez-Navarro — A Champion Of Transparency And Inclusion

Grace Perez-Navarro’s career at the OECD began unexpectedly — as many life-changing events do — with a quick, off-the-cuff decision she made on an otherwise routine day in the early 1990s.

On that day, Perez-Navarro had settled into what she thought would be a long-haul career handling international tax matters at the IRS’s Chief Counsel office. She had risen through the ranks to become a special counsel, in charge of negotiating tax information exchange agreements, overseeing litigation, and coordinating guidance to the IRS’s field offices.