Barbara M. Angus currently is a consultant for Ernst & Young LLP. She previously served as EY’s Global Tax Policy Leader. Based in Washington, DC, she engages with clients and governments on tax policy development and implementation around the world. From 2016 through 2018, Barbara was Chief Tax Counsel for the Committee on Ways and Means of the United States House of Representatives. Appointed by then-Chairman Kevin Brady, she had responsibility for work on all tax matters before the Committee and played a key role in the development and enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Earlier in her career, Barbara was the international tax lead for the Office of Tax Policy of the United States Department of the Treasury from 2001 to 2005, serving as the federal government's principal legal advisor on all aspects of international tax policy and representing the United States in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as a Vice Chair of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs. Her first public-sector role was as business tax counsel for the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation from 1995 to 1998. She has more than 25 years of private sector experience in international tax matters, including forming a consulting firm to provide strategic support for clients on engagement with policymakers on tax legislative and regulatory matters and advising clients as a principal in the federal tax policy group of another Big Four firm and as a partner in the tax practice of a major law firm. Barbara received the Pillar of Excellence Award from the Tax Council Policy Institute in 2022 and the Distinguished Service Award from the Tax Foundation in 2018. She was included in the list of ten Outstanding Women in Tax published by Tax Analysts in 2016. She has been an adjunct professor in the tax L.L.M. programs at Georgetown University Law Center, DePaul University College of Law, and Chicago-Kent College of Law. She also was a founding member of an all-lawyer comedy troupe in Chicago. Barbara received an A.B. (mathematics and economics), magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth College; a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School; and an M.B.A. (finance and accounting), with high honors, from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.