Chairman, Isla Lipana & Co. Tammy H. Lipana is the Chairman & Senior Partner of Isla Lipana & Co., the Philippine member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers global network. Prior to her assumption of this role, she was the Vice-Chairman and concurrent Managing Partner for Tax Services. She is currently Chairperson of the Taxation Committee of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and member of the Makati Business Club and the Management Association of the Philippines. Her credentials as tax expert include being president of the Tax Management Association of the Philippines, and Private Sector Head – BIR Task Force for Drafting R-VAT Regulations. For many years, she chaired the Committee on Taxation of the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), where she also served as director and treasurer. In November 2006, the said Institute named her Outstanding CPA in Public Practice. These organizations serve as her venue to interact with both the framers and implementers of the tax laws in the country. She trained in legacy Price Waterhouse, New York under the firm’s management international development program. She attended executive development programs at the Harvard Business School, Asian Institute of Management and University of Western Ontario in Canada. She has written tax-related articles for foreign and local publications, including BusinessWorld, and has spoken in many seminars and conferences on varied aspects of taxation. She is a CPA board placer and cum laude graduate (Bachelor of Science in Business Administration) from the University of the East. The UE Alumni Association has conferred on her a Special Recognition Award as an outstanding alumna and named her among its prestigious alumni achievers.