Anzhela Cédelle

Dr Anzhela Cédelle is a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law and Counsellor at the OECD Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.

Anzhela has over 20 years of experience in international and EU tax law and policy, tax administration and institutional reform. At the OECD, she advises on international tax co-operation, the implementation and effectiveness of international tax transparency and exchange of information standards, and strategic and institutional matters. Her work includes advising governments on legal and administrative reforms, leading complex international peer reviews assessing jurisdictions’ laws and administrative practices, and delivering capacity-building programmes. Anzhela has led and contributed to major international reports, including reports to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, and to the development of model legislation, policy guidance and practical toolkits for governments. 

Anzhela’s academic interests lie at the intersection of international, EU and domestic tax law and policy, with a particular interest in how international tax rules and co-operation operate in practice. Her current interests also include digitalisation and artificial intelligence and their implications for tax administration and international tax co-operation. She has held research and teaching posts at Oxford, including as Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, and has designed and taught EU Tax Law in the Global Context on the MSc in Taxation since 2016. Her research has been published in the British Tax Review and by Hart Publishing and IBFD. She is writing a monograph on EU direct tax law and policy for Oxford University Press.

Anzhela was called to the Bar of England and Wales and is a door tenant at Pump Court Tax Chambers, London. She holds a DPhil and a Master of Studies (Distinction) from Oxford, where she was a Chevening Scholar, and law degrees from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Her doctoral research received the European Law Faculties Association’s First Award for the best doctoral thesis in European law and an Honourable Mention in the International Fiscal Association’s Mitchell B. Carroll Prize competition. She is also a recipient of the British Academy’s Rising Star Engagement Award.