AGM (30 min) & History Tax Talk on How to draw Tax Lessons for the Future from the Past

Archie Parnell began his legal career as a trial attorney in 1974 in Washington, D.C. at the
U.S. Department of Justice in its Tax Division. He later joined the staff of the Ways and
Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He left government to join Exxon
Corporation’s Tax Department and, in 1984, was sent to Hong Kong to head its Asia Pacific
Tax Department. Exxon thereafter sent him to Brussels to its European Tax Department.
Archie returned to Hong Kong in 1990 to join the international law firm of Coudert Brothers
and, in 1994, joined Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and Tokyo where he headed its tax
function in Asia. He left Goldman Sachs in 2017 and ran for United States Congress in the
5th District of South Carolina as a Democrat (he lost).

Archie was Chair of the American Chamber’s Tax Committee in 1992, 1993 and 1998 in
Hong Kong and Chair of the Capital Markets Tax Committee of Asia in 1994, 1995 and
1997. He participated in the Hong Kong Joint Liaison Tax Committee for several years in
the 1990s. He was a member of the Hong Kong Board of Review for 10 years. He was a
member of the Business and Investment Advisory Committee (“BIAC”) to the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”) in Paris from 2010 to
2016 and Vice Chair of BIAC’s Tax Committee to the OECD from 2013 to 2016.

On the academic front, Archie has taught in law schools in the U.S. and India. He is
currently teaching two international tax courses at Jindal Global Law School in Sonipat
(Delhi Capital Region), India. One is titled, A Tale of Two Tax Systems: Discerning
Solutions for India-US Tax Disputes and the other course is How Taxation Can Help
Address Climate Change.