Pascal Saint-Amans
Project lead, EU Tax Compass
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
EU aid for domestic revenue mobilisation after the Sevilla Commitment
The 2025 Sevilla Commitment renews the push for domestic revenue mobilisation, with the EU needing stable, targeted support for low-income partners
Tax, sovereignty and the EU
How will Europe manage the collision of money, politics and global reform?
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
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
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
Balanced new own resources for the EU budget
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 to the commissioner responsible for tax policy
Why should the European Union reboot the debate on financing the EU budget?
Broader border taxes: a new option for European Union budget resources
The purpose of this paper is to review the Commission’s proposal and to contribute new ideas for ‘genuine’ own resources
The state of play on global tax
Discussing the latest developments in international tax cooperation.
Tax for climate finance should start with shipping
Emissions from international shipping are the most realistic target for taxes to pay for climate spending in developing countries.
All work
Event
02 July 2026
Aid, taxes and state capacity: the future of Domestic Revenue Mobilisation
How can donors turn the Sevilla Commitment into real progress on domestic revenue mobilisation?
Policy Brief
16 April 2026
EU aid for domestic revenue mobilisation after the Sevilla Commitment
The 2025 Sevilla Commitment renews the push for domestic revenue mobilisation, with the EU needing stable, targeted support for low-income partners
Podcast
04 February 2026
Tax, sovereignty and the EU
How will Europe manage the collision of money, politics and global reform?
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