Zorka Milin
Zorka Milin is policy director at the FACT coalition, where she leads on international tax policy and other transparency priorities. Before joining FACT, she served as senior advisor at investigative watchdog Global Witness for almost ten years, focusing on improving financial transparency and accountability in the extraction of natural resources. She has also taught at Georgetown and Yale Universities, and practiced international tax law for over six years with two leading global law firms, Allen & Overy LLP and Linklaters LLP.
She has been interviewed and quoted on anti-corruption, transparency and energy policy in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC World Service, NPR, CNBC, Politico, Financial Times, Guardian, Bloomberg, Reuters, New Yorker and more. Originally from Serbia, she holds a M.A. in international relations from Yale University, as well as a J.D. and LL.M. in international and comparative law from Cornell Law School. She also holds B.A. in mathematics from Grinnell College.
Steve Wamhoff
Steve Wamhoff is ITEP’s director of federal tax policy. In this role, he is responsible for setting the organization’s federal research and policy agenda. He is the author of numerous reports and analyses of federal tax policies as well as in-depth policy briefs that outline how the federal income tax and corporate tax code can be overhauled to improve tax fairness.
Just before taking on the role of ITEP’s director of federal tax policy, Steve spent more than two years as the senior tax policy analyst for Sen. Bernie Sanders and as a member of the senator’s Budget Committee staff. In this capacity, he wrote legislation related to personal income and corporate income taxes, financial transaction taxes, estate taxes and tax avoidance.
Before joining Sen. Sanders’ staff, Steve had previously worked for ITEP and its c(4) partner Citizens for Tax Justice for more than eight years. During this time, he built expertise is analyzing tax policies and their effect on federal revenue as well as on people across the income spectrum. Notably, he wrote reports on proposals to extend the George W. Bush tax cuts, as well as proposals to eliminate tax breaks for for investors and corporations as a way of financing health care reform and other initiatives.
Earlier in his career, Steve worked for the Social Security Administration’s Office of Policy and the Coalition on Human Needs. He received a Juris Doctor and Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s from New York University.
Tutu Alicante
Tutu Alicante is from Annobón, Equatorial Guinea. Before founding EG Justice, Tutu worked as a legal consultant with international NGOs, promoting legal accountability and transparency in the extractive industry. In 2007, he received a fellowship from Echoing Green to establish EG Justice. Prior to that, he worked as an employment attorney with the Southern Migrant Legal Services, where he represented migrant farm-workers. Tutu holds a Masters in Law degree from Columbia Law School and a law degree from the University of Tennessee.
John Keenan
John Keenan is a Corporate Governance Analyst for Capital Strategies for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), which is the largest union in the AFL-CIO representing state and local government, health care and child care workers. John serves on the board of the Council of Institutional Investors, where he previously co-chaired the its Shareholder Advocacy Committee. Before joining AFSCME, he was a proxy voting analyst at Institutional Shareholder Services and also a paralegal in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of Brown University.
Jason Ward
Jason Ward is the founder and principal analyst of the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability & Research (CICTAR). Jason has been a frequent commentator on international corporate tax issues, including as a spokesperson for the Tax Justice Network – Australia, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Business at the University of Greenwich in the UK. In 2022, Jason Ward was included in the International Tax Review’s Top 50 most influential individuals in the world of tax policy.
Jason specializes in forensic financial analysis aimed at exposing aggressive tax avoidance strategies to help fuel progress on essential tax reforms.