Federica Casano is a PhD candidate in European and International Tax Law at the Tax Law Department of Leiden Law School.

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In 2019, Federica graduated (cum laude) in law at the University of Bologna (Italy). In the same year, she graduated (cum laude) from the LL.M. program in International and European Corporate Tax Law at Tilburg University (the Netherlands). She also worked as a researcher and coordinator assistant at Tilburg University till January 2020.

In 2021, Federica conducted a traineeship at the European Commission, where she worked on the fight against tax evasion, on the enhancing and implementation of the concept of beneficial ownership, and on the listing process of high risk (non-EU) countries for the purposes of anti-money laundering and countering terrorism.

In her PhD research, Federica investigates the effectiveness of the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes. Federica's PhD research is part of the Tax Transparency project .

Federica teaches in the bachelor course ‘Tax in the Boardroom’, which is part of the minor ‘Tax and Society’.