Mr John Connors
With a long and distinguished background in both the public and commercial tax environment, John is tax counsel and senior advisor at Vodafone, and represents global business interests for the International Chamber of Commerce.
John was global head of tax at Vodafone for more than a decade, being responsible for all of the group’s tax affairs, instigating the publication of their annual ‘Total Tax and Economic Contribution’ report, including the company’s OECD-standard country by country tax report.
John trained as a tax inspector with HMRC and became Director of their Large Business Customer unit after secondments to the European Commission, where, over three years, he primarily supported the work on the EU’s Code of Conduct for business taxation, and a similar period as head of HM Treasury’s international corporate tax unit.