2025 and the Coming Tax and Fiscal Showdown

As EY’s Global Tax Policy Leader, Barbara engages with clients and governments on tax policy development and implementation across the globe.

From 2016 through 2018, Barbara served as Chief Tax Counsel for the Committee on Ways and Means of the United States House of Representatives, where she played a key role in the development and enactment of the recent comprehensive US tax reform.

In earlier public-sector roles, she was the international tax lead for the US Department of the Treasury and business tax counsel for the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. She also has over 25 years of private sector experience as a tax advisor.

Barbara received the Pillar of Excellence Award from the Tax Council Policy Institute and the Distinguished Service Award from the Tax Foundation; she also was included in the list of ten Outstanding Women in Tax published by Tax Analysts. She has an AB from Dartmouth College, a JD from Harvard Law School, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Rohit Kumar is a Principal and Co-Leader of PwC’s Washington National Tax Services practice. In his role, Mr. Kumar advises clients on all aspects of domestic policy including tax policy. His insights and knowledge enable companies to assess critical policy issues more effectively and develop legislative strategies to address those issues from both a technical and political perspective.

Prior to joining PwC, Mr. Kumar served as the Domestic Policy Director and Deputy Chief of Staff in the Office of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.

He served 11 consecutive years in the Office of the Republican Leader for three different senators, having previously been Director of Policy and Senior Counsel to Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist and Senior Policy Advisor and General Counsel for Senate GOP Leader, Trent Lott. In all of these roles, Mr. Kumar worked in close collaboration with Senate leaders in developing and implementing all aspects of domestic policy including tax, trade, budget, and health care. Mr. Kumar also held positions in the Office of Senator Phil Gramm as Legislative Director and Chief Counsel, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs as Deputy Chief Republican Counsel and clerked in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Mr. Kumar has been named in Roll Call as one of the fifty most influential staffers for mastery of policy and procedure and access to decision makers at key times. He was described in the Washington Post publication Who Runs Gov as, “an expert in both politics and policy” and also listed in the Almanac of the Unelected as an expert in tax, trade, banking/financial services and immigration.

Mr. Kumar received his J.D. from the University of Virginia. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Duke University.

Urvi Doshi Sood is currently Vice President of Taxes and General Tax Counsel at Lockheed Martin Corporation. In this capacity, Urvi acts as the corporation’s Chief Tax Officer with responsibility for all tax matters worldwide, and she leads the corporate tax team of about 75 employees worldwide.

Previously, Ms. Sood was Vice President of Tax Administration and State and Local Tax (SALT). Prior to that, Urvi was Vice President of Tax Planning & Senior Tax Counsel. She led the tax teams responsible for the 2015 $9 billion acquisition of Sikorsky and the 2016 $5 billion Reverse Morris Trust transaction with Leidos. Ms. Sood joined Lockheed Martin in 2006.

Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Ms. Sood served as a tax associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Washington, DC and New York, NY. Prior to law school, Ms. Sood worked as a financial analyst at the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York, NY. 

In addition to earning her J.D. from New York University’s School of Law, Ms. Sood graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Honors College at the University of Michigan with dual B.A. degrees in Economics and Political Science. Ms. Sood is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and New York. 

Urvi is currently chair of the Tax Council Policy Institute. She is also on the board of, and serves as Treasurer for, the Tax Council. Urvi is a member of the Executive Committee of the Financial Executives International Committee on Taxation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Tax Committee. Urvi is also a member of the GW/IRS Annual Institute on Taxation Advisory Board. 

Urvi is co-chair of LM's worldwide Women’s Impact Network. In 2023, Urvi chaired LM Women’s Impact Network Leadership Forum. Until April 2020, Ms. Sood served as co-chair for Lockheed Martin’s Professional Asian American Network. In 2015, she was the co-chair of the Lockheed Martin Council for Asian American Leaders National Leadership Forum. 

Anna joined the Washington National Tax office in 2023 as deputy managing principal of the Tax Policy Group. She brings nearly two decades of Capitol Hill experience that will inform insights regarding tax and trade policy and legislative priorities and strategies. She joins a team that monitors US tax legislative and regulatory developments and produces articles for Deloitte Tax’s weekly newsletter, Tax News & Views, and in-depth publications on issues such as the US deficit and US tax reform.

Anna joined Washington National Tax from the Office of the Senate Democratic Leader, where she was the Director of Economic Policy as well as Tax and Trade Counsel. During her time in this role, she was the principal tax negotiator on legislation such as the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022. She developed, implemented, and managed the Senate Democratic Caucus economic policy agenda and acted as their primary floor advisor for tax, trade, financial services, retirement security and unemployment insurance legislation. She regularly interacted with the professional staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, and minority and majority staff of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Anna earned her BA in political science from Arkansas State University and her JD from University of Arkansas School of Law.