Andrew Hickman has been appointed head of the OECD’s transfer pricing unit at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. He will take up the role in May 2014 when he leaves his current role at KPMG in the UK.
He has over 25 years of transfer pricing experience, most recently as a partner with KPMG in London, where he develops transfer pricing policy and works with multinational clients and tax authorities on transfer pricing compliance, dispute resolution, and advance pricing agreements.
Before joining KPMG, he was a senior transfer pricing official at HMRC, where he acted as competent authority in eliminating double taxation with treaty partners and managed the UK’s advance pricing agreement programme. As the UK delegate to the OECD’s working party 6 for five years in the early 1990s he helped to produce the 1995 update to the transfer pricing guidelines.
The OECD is currently developing new transfer pricing guidelines for multinationals and is set to outline its recommendations during 2014.