About the Speaker:

Ian is an economist and recent MFRE graduate, class of 2019. After completing the MFRE program he started his career as a specialist in KPMG Vancouver’s cross-functional Economic Services and Global Transfer Pricing service lines. Over the last 4 and half years Ian has worked with government and corporate clients spanning all industries and geographies across Canada.

 As a transfer pricing practitioner, he performs economic analyses to price intercompany transactions, aids clients in strategizing and responding to tax authority audits, helps clients plan and manage their intercompany policies around evolving transfer pricing issues, and properly documents all these analyses. As a manager, Ian presents these findings with clients, and coaches’ junior staff, conducts technical research and presentations, and aids in the business development of the Vancouver transfer pricing practice.    

In Economic Services, Ian leverages his academic MFRE knowledge to perform cost modeling, pricing analysis, market equilibrium analysis, economic impact analysis, and government policy evaluations. Work in this service line spans from qualitative theoretical research to complex statistical analysis