Barbara M. Angus Barbara M. Angus is a principal with Angus & Nickerson, a consulting firm specializing in the development and implementation of legislative and regulatory solutions on a broad range of tax matters. Prior to forming Angus & Nickerson, Ms. Angus served as International Tax Counsel for the Office of Tax Policy, Department of the Treasury, from 2001 to February 2005. In this position, Ms. Angus served as principal legal advisor on all aspects of international tax policy, including the development of legislation, the promulgation of administrative guidance, and the negotiation of tax treaties. Ms. Angus also represented the United States before international tax organizations, including the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Before joining Treasury, Ms. Angus was a partner in the Federal Tax Policy Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she represented clients on a wide range of tax legislative and tax planning matters. From 1995 to 1998, Ms. Angus was Business Tax Counsel for the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. As a senior staff member of the Joint Committee, Ms. Angus had primary responsibility for all international aspects of tax legislation and for the review and analysis of tax treaties considered by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. She was previously a partner with Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago. Ms. Angus received her A.B., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth College, her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and her M.B.A., with high honors, from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Ms. Angus taught tax courses as a member of the adjunct faculty in the L.L.M programs at Chicago-Kent College of Law and DePaul University College of Law.