Andrea Garcia Castelao

Andrea is a Tax principal with more than 12 years of experience on providing global information, reporting, and withholding related services to global financial institutions. She specializes in the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), Common Reporting Standard (CRS), and Treaty Relief and Compliance Enhancement (TRACE) for financial markets and products and non-financial groups and is currently a member of the CRS/TRACE Business Advisory Group at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Andrea has coordinated multi-jurisdictional FATCA/CRS implementation and remediation strategies for banking institutions, asset managers, insurance companies, and private equity firms. She has also managed FATCA/CRS readiness assessment programs for large global financial institutions. She designed the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) Advantage platform (also known as GIR Tracker) that compiles and compares FATCA and CRS rules and regulations across more than 100 jurisdictions.