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Dr. Rekwest is the Head of Tax Treaty Negotiations for the Government of Curaçao. 

In 2022, she defended her PhD thesis on ‘A tax treaty policy for Curaçao’ at Leiden University. Her research addressed the difficulties that Curaçao is experiencing in building its tax treaty network. She presented the way Curaçao should design a tax treaty policy as an evaluation framework, which is intended as an advice for Curaçao. Shortly after her PhD defense, she was appointed chair of the Tax Treaty Taskforce for Curaçao and the Taskforce International Tax Compliance of Curaçao. The task force is set up to advise the Curaçao Minister of Finance on compliance with international tax standards, particularly in connection with the OECD’s Pillar 1 and Pillar 2. 

She is the president of the IFA Branch Curaçao-Aruba-Sint Maarten. She has published several papers in tax journals, and chairs the Caribbean Tax Law Journal.