Edwin Vanderbruggen is the senior partner of Andersen in Cambodia and Vietnam, and of VDB Loi in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, and Indonesia. Edwin has advised Governments, international financial institutions, oil and gas supermajors, independent power producers, commercial banks, mobile network operators and other multinationals on some of the region's largest projects and deals.

He has decades of experience as a legal and tax adviser, author, government adviser and academic. He has regularly advised Governments, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank in Southeast Asia, drafted laws and regulations and has supplied expert testimony to courts and arbitration tribunals.

Edwin previously lectured international tax law in six universities across Europe and Asia, including the International Tax Centre at Leyden in the Netherlands, and presently at the Foreign Trade University in Vietnam. He has also published more than forty scientific articles in international legal journals and six textbooks on international law, taxation and economic law issues, some of which won scientific awards.