Edoardo Traversa is a Professor of Tax Law and European Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology and Director of the Institute of European Studies at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). He is also a visiting professor at KU Leuven and WU Vienna.

His research interests include European tax integration, international taxation, fiscal and financial federalism, EU indirect taxation (VAT) and the interaction between taxation and public policy, in particular EU and constitutional constraints on national tax policy. He is a member of several advisory committees for EU and Belgian institutions. He is also a member of the Brussels Bar (Of Counsel, Arteo).