Jim Robertson

Institution: UN Subcommittee on Extractive Industries Taxation, UK
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Jim Robertson is a non-executive director in the Scottish Government, chair of the Government’s Audit and Assurance Committee and member of its Global Climate Emergency Programme Board. He is also a Senior Fellow of the International Tax and Investment Center, an education foundation based in Washington, DC, in which role he delivers capacity-building programmes to tax officials in developing countries together with the IMF, World Bank, OECD and UN. Jim is a member of the UN Extractives and Environmental Tax Subcommittees and co-chair of the latter’s energy transition tax workstream. He is also a member of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-Based Development and sits on the advisory board of Crystol Energy.

Jim’s tax career began at PwC and he then moved to Shell, working in several locations around the world in a variety of tax and finance roles, including 11 years as Global Head of Oil and Gas Tax. His work beyond tax demonstrates his dedicated commitment to promoting equality diversity & inclusion, exemplified in his role as a founder member of Shell’s Finance Social Investment Network and as a “he for she” partner of the G100 Group of 100 Global Women Leaders. In Shell Finance he had global responsibility for managing professional qualifications, notably CIMA and ACCA.

Jim sits on the governing Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) and is a member of its Qualifications Board, Devolved Taxes Committee and Equality Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

At the CIOT Jim chairs the ADIT Academic Board, and is a member of our Climate Change and Diversity and Inclusion groups.