Ludger Wellens is a Senior Tax/Transfer Pricing Partner in the Düsseldorf office of Grant Thornton and heads the German TP practice. He has more than 27 years of experience in all aspects of transfer pricing and international tax planning. Ludger is certified as German Tax Advisor (Steuerberater). He holds a Diploma in International Business from the University College Dublin (Ireland), an MBA from the University of Aachen and a Ph.D. from the University of Bayreuth. Ludger has worked for two of the Big 4 consulting firms in their tax and transfer pricing departments. He was also member of the board and head of the transfer pricing group of a German based tax consulting firm. Furthermore, he worked as Tax Director Head of Global Transfer Pricing for a major German based multinational company. Both as an in-house consultant in industry and as an outside expert Ludger has planned and implemented numerous transfer pricing systems. He has worked extensively on Value Chain Transformation projects both inbound and outbound. He has extensive experience solving controversies through defending tax audits and supporting mutual agreement procedures as well as advance pricing agreements (APAs). Ludger contributes his extensive experience in transfer pricing as a regular speaker at transfer pricing conferences in Germany and abroad and as an author of transfer pricing literature on a regular basis.
