Walter H. Diamond, a widely-known international tax authority, whose serviced tax publication "Foreign Tax and Trade Briefs," was the firstcompendium of its kind when published by Matthew Bender in 1950, and still is the "bible" in the field covering current tax laws of 120 countries,was a United Nations Tax Treaty and Free Trade Zone Advisor as well as Editor and Economist ofOverseas Press and Consultants. A former Director of International Taxation and Manager of International Taxes for Deloitte Touche and KPMGPeat Marwick respectively, Mr. Diamond also served as Director of the Economics Department of McGraw-Hill International Corporation and Editor of the McGraw-Hill American Letter. Before joining McGraw-Hill, he was Economist for the Public National Bank and National Bank Examiner in the Second Federal Reserve District, having been in charge of liquidation of foreign banks and businesses for the Alien Property Custodian during World War II.
Mr. Diamond was a graduate of Syracuse University and the American Institute of Banking with post-graduate work at Syracuse and New York Universities in international finance. As a United Nations and US AID Advisor, he handled assignments for more than 50 countries involving taxation, investment, trade development, free trade zones, treaties, export insurance and offshore banking. Mr. Diamond received citations for his assistance in this work from Chief Executive of Honduras and former U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Sr., while former President Eisenhower appointed him to the French Trade Mission to handle investment and tax problems. As a Foreign Analyst of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Mr. Diamond helped to prepare foreign exchange recommendations for Bretton Woods.
Prof. William H. Byrnes, IV, is the Associate Dean of the Walter H. & Dorothy B. Diamond International Tax & Financial Services Graduate Program, founded on the Diamond's sixty years of publications with LexisNexis Matthew Bender. Before academia, Dean Byrnes was a senior manager, then associate director of international tax for Coopers and Lybrand which subsequently amalgamated into PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. He has been employed as a consultant to a number of governments on their tax policy, including South Africa, Botswana, The United Kingdom, the British Virgin Islands, The Turks and Caicos Islands, Anguilla and Montserrat.
Besides his professional and academic career, Professor Byrnes has been a prolific author of treatises, textbooks, and articles. His 900 page Report on the EU Savings Directive commissioned by the U.K. received much attention from policy makers for its empirical research and application of socio-economics. Moreover, he has been commissioned as a professional trainer in over 50 countries. Professor Byrnes' three year fellowship dissertation was on International Transfer Pricing (IBFD & the Europa Institute, Law faculty of the University of Amsterdam), his degree in Political Economics from Tulane University.
Dr. Robert J. Munro is the University Law Librarian and Co-Director of CIFCS at the College of Law of the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL., Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, CA. and a Senior Research Fellow and Director of Research for North America at CIDOEC at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He holds Masters degrees from the University of Iowa and Louisiana State University, a Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He has done further graduate studies at Cambridge University, Oxford University and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London. He is the author of thirty-two published books, including the five-volume treatise, Money Laundering, Asset Forfeiture and International Financial Crimes, the three-volume, Cybercrime and Security, the three-volume Tax Havens of the World and Foreign Tax and Trade Briefs.
