BRIGITTE ALEPIN is a Harvard-trained chartered accountant and tax specialist with extensive public and private-sector experience. She has been hired by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance in Ottawa to investigate tax evasion and tax havens and by the Quebec's Health and Welfare Commissioner to quantify the cost of the province's healthcare system. The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants have invited her to present the findings of major studies to governments, and she often appears as an expert witness before House of Commons finance committees. She is a lecturer on taxation and tax policy at the Université du Québec, a frequent media commentator, and a regular contributor to CA Magazine (the journal of Chartered Accountants of Canada)..