Pascal Saint-Amans
Pascal Saint-Amans is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in tax policy, EU budget revenues, climate financing, domestic resource mobilisation, illicit financial flows and tax transparency.
He speaks English and French.
He is the founder and CEO of the Saint-Amans Global Advisory and is an Associate Professor at HEC Paris. Previously, he was Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD, playing a key role in the advancement of the OECD tax transparency agenda in the context of the G20. He was an official in the French Ministry for Finance for nearly a decade, where he held various positions within the Treasury, including heading the supervision of the EU work on direct taxes. He was financial director of the French Energy Regulation Agency before becoming head of the tax treaty negotiations and mutual agreement procedures.
Disclosure of interests
Featured work
With Trump, what is left of the global minimum tax?
Has the global minimum tax survived Trump?
US objections have not killed off the 15 percent global minimum tax, but they have altered it and given the US a competitive advantage
Shifting priorities, slow progress: an analysis of EU tax recommendations
EU tax advice has broadened to new objectives, yet uneven implementation highlights the limits of soft coordination
Bigger, better funded and focused on public goods: how to revamp the European Union budget
All work
Newsletter
19 January 2026
Analysis
13 January 2026
Has the global minimum tax survived Trump?
US objections have not killed off the 15 percent global minimum tax, but they have altered it and given the US a competitive advantage
Working paper
27 November 2025
Shifting priorities, slow progress: an analysis of EU tax recommendations
EU tax advice has broadened to new objectives, yet uneven implementation highlights the limits of soft coordination
Blueprint
10 July 2025
First Glance
30 June 2025
The implications of G7 agreement on the global minimum tax
Though the European Union might not like a ‘side-by-side’ global minimum tax system, it has little choice but to work with it for now
First Glance
11 June 2025
Boosting EU budget revenues with a defence spending shortfall levy
The European Union’s defence spending laggards could be asked to pay more into the common budget
Report
17 February 2025
Analysis
19 November 2024
One bad Apple decision: EU tax ruling entrenches distortions
Ireland’s massive tax windfall highlights once again the pressing need for reform of profit allocation rules
Memo
04 September 2024
Annual meetings
04 September 2024
Bruegel Annual Meetings | 4-5 September 2024
This year's Annual Meetings centered around the launch of the Bruegel Memos to the European Union leadership 2024-2029