Matt Lykken graduated with honors from Harvard Law School in 1985 and has been working as a tax attorney for 22 years. He began his career with the Office of Chief Counsel, I.R.S., and for the last 18 years has worked as an international tax planner and tax department head living in the U.S. and abroad, working for both U.S. and foreign owned corporations. He has advised governments from Trinidad to newly post-communist Poland on the design of their tax systems, and has been a member of the core evaluation team for dozens of corporate investment decisions. He is intimately familiar with the negative effects of acquisitions of U.S. corporations by tax subsidized foreign rivals.