Rebecca Oakes Burch serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs at the Department of the Treasury. She began her career as a tax attorney in the Internal Revenue Service Office of Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate) where she served for 10 years focusing on all aspects of corporate and partnership tax matters. She brought that expertise to private practice in the EY Transaction Tax Services practice, specializing in corporate reorganizations. She was most recently a managing director with Washington Council E&Y, where for the last ten years she assisted clients on tax policy matters in Congress, the regulatory agencies and at the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation. She has a Masters in Tax from Georgetown Law School, a law degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, and an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Loyola University in Chicago.