Aruna Kalyanam

Global and Americas Tax Policy Leader

Veteran US federal tax policy wonk. Lifelong fan of the Wu-Tang Clan. “Tax rules everything around me.”

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Aruna is based in Washington, DC and has decades of experience serving in government as a tax policy professional for the executive and legislative branches. She served most recently as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax and Budget in the U.S. Treasury Department, and was instrumental in passing several pieces of major tax legislation driving billions of dollars in economic growth and investment. Aruna previously spent two decades on the House Ways and Means Committee and worked on every major piece of tax legislation since 2001. She also serves as the Americas Tax Policy Leader, working closely with Washington Council Ernst & Young, QUEST and the EY National Tax Department on US legislative and tax policy developments.

Aruna earned a JD from the Washington College of Law at American University, and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis.

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