Dataharvest is excited to welcome acclaimed French investigative journalist Edouard Perrin as our keynote speaker this year. Perrin came under fire after being the first reporter to reveal the secret tax deals between Luxemburg and multinationals, a tax evasion scandal dubbed LuxLeaks when Perrin collaborated with the global ICIJ network.
Perrin is an investigative journalist with Première Lignes’ Cash Investigation, an ICIJ partner. In 2012 in collaboration with the BBC, Perrin, revealed for the first time details of Luxembourg tax rulings that helped multinational corporations to drastically slash their tax bills. In 2014, two employees of the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) provided Perrin with thousands of pages of corporate documents, evidence that the Luxembourg tax authorities allowed companies tax breaks of 1% or less.