Margaretha Haeussler

Margaretha (Mar) is Director, Transfer Pricing for Novartis in the United States. She has over twenty five years of transfer pricing experience working with a variety of multinational clients across a many industries with particular emphasis on the life sciences, consumer products, and automotive component industries. Mar has worked on a wide variety of transfer pricing issues ranging from controversies, Advanced Pricing Agreements (“APA”), and documentation requirements.

Prior to Novartis, Mar was with Olympus Corporation of the Americas and, as a partner at Arthur Andersen, she was responsible for the development of the New York Office’s transfer pricing practice. Mar began her career in transfer pricing as an Industry Economist with the Manhattan District of the Internal Revenue Service.

Mar is active in her community serving on the Boards of the YWCA Allentown and the West Park Civic Association. Mar received her M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Pennsylvania State University and a BA in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.