Douglas RankinThe Management Committee has appointed Mr Douglas Rankin as its new Acting Vice Chairman. (The position will be filled substantively by election during the General Meeting to be held in 2009.) Mr Rankin succeeds Mr Greg Farr, who had served as Acting Vice Chairman following the retirement of Mr John McGinley. Mr Rankin is a senior member of HM Revenue & Customs' double taxation treaty negotiating team with wide experience in the field of international taxation, and has for several years served as the UK resource person at the Workshop on the Taxation of International Transactions hosted annually in Malaysia.