Philippe Arraou is Chartered Accountant in France and in Spain. After having leading his own practice during 30 years, he entered BDO and he is today Managing Partner for France.
He is immediate Past-President of the French Institute of CPA “Ordre des Experts Comptables”, since March 2017, and currently in charge of International Affairs for the French profession.
He is member of the IFAC Board, since November 2016, where he is chairing the “Technology Advisory Group”.
He is President of FCM, the Mediterranean Federation of Accountants, and Co-founder and first President of ETAF, the European Tax Advisers Federation. He is also first Vice President of “CILEA”, the Latin Committee Europe America. He was co-founder and first President of the European Federation EFAA from 1996 to 2000.
Mr. Arraou has published in many professional publications. In September 2016 he wrote a book : “The Digital Economy and the Certified Public Accountant”, prefaced by Emmanuel Macron.
In France he was decorated :
- in 2013 by the Minister of Budget, Cazeneuve, of the “Ordre National du Mérite”,
- in 2016 by the Minister of Economy, Macron, of the “Légion d’Honneur”.
David Szafran is attorney at Eubelius, a member of the Brussels’ Bar, focusing in particular on advising clients on corporate governance and corporate law, legal compliance and risks management, especially in regulated sectors including the financial sector. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the Financial Services and Markets Authority of Belgium, chair of the audit committee and of the remuneration committee of a public company, board member of Transparency International Belgium, assessor vice president of the Belgian Competition Authority, assistant professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and past-chair of ISAR 30th Session (UNCTAD) on corporate reporting. He was also a censor and member of the audit committee of the National Bank of Belgium.
He graduated in Law at the ULB in 1993 and obtained a post-university degree in economic and financial law at the ULB in 1995. Since then, he has been a lawyer at the Brussels’ Bar for over 6 years, member of cabinet of the deputy prime minister, Secretary general of the Institute of Registered Auditors for 13 years, and was a Director at PwC.
David Lyford-Smith is an accountant and tech expert with particular interests in the digitalisation of tax systems, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, spreadsheet skills and best practice, and the place of technology in ICAEW’s professional qualifications. In his role in the IT Faculty, David liaises with various business and practice stakeholders as well as academic and political interests to create events and publications on a variety of thought leadership activities surrounding accountants in practice.
David began his career at BDO, beginning in audit before joining the coordination team of BDO’s Global Outsourcing division, based in Reading. David worked on supporting multinational companies with their compliance activities across international boundaries, and also spent time working on iXBRL tagging. David also ran BDO’s internal Excel training courses, travelling the country to speak on spreadsheet best practice and skills. In his final year at BDO, David transferred to a Senior Excel Practitioner role, spending 100% of his time on spreadsheet support, training, and standardisation.
A former ICAEW Excel Community volunteer, David then joined ICAEW full-time. In addition to his thought leadership activities, David also oversees the activities of the Excel Community and is a regular blogger for that community. He presents training and risk management sessions on spreadsheeting both for the ICAEW Academy and for the regional offices.
Peggy is a UK PwC Assurance partner with experience in large scale technology development and providing audit and assurance services. She has spent the last 5 years in our Assurance Transformation team leading global investment programmes. Her focus is on: helping PwC’s Assurance practice innovate and respond to the impact of emerging technologies within client processes; considering how PwC can embrace on the new capabilities technology enables to support high quality delivery of their services; and adapting PwC to the future working practices technology will drive.
<strong>Background</strong>
Marco Grossi is a Director in the Financial Services Audit and Advisory Compentency. He has over 16 years of audit, advisory and consulting experience in financial services, especially in Treasury and Investment Banking. He has gained extensive executive and management experience as a former CFO of Lehman Brothers Finance Switzerland. Marco holds a Master in Economics from the University of Basel (lic.rer.pol.) and a Swiss CPA.
As from 2016 he his member of the Deloitte Blockchain Assurance Team and part of Gobal Deloitte Blockchain Community covering Accounting, Audit and Assurance. He is leading Blockchain Assurance and –Audit in Switzerland and is part of major Global activities around Blockchain Technology.
<strong>Profile</strong>
- Leading Deloitte Blockchain Assurance Switzerland and part of Global efforts around Blockchain and Audit/Assurance
<strong>Experience:</strong>
- Expert in Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, mainly Audit and Assurance and Business modelling/Process aligment old/new world
- ICO advisors
- Deloitte Treasury Specialist
<strong>Experience outside Deloitte:</strong>
- Worked for a Swiss Crypto Exchange and Security trader in Switzerland
- Investment Banking: CFO Lehman Brothers Switzerlnd
- Audit and Advisors in Financial Services and Big Corporates
<strong>Education</strong>
Swiss CPA and Master in Economics
Mohini Singh is a director in the Financial Reporting Policy Group at CFA Institute. Her responsibilities include representing membership interests regarding financial reporting proposals of the IASB, FASB and other regulators. She drafts comment letters and position papers. In addition, she serves on the IAASB consultative advisory group, The IESBA consultative advisory group, and the XBRL US data quality committee. Most recently served as the Global Accounting Analyst leading CFA Institute’s IFRS implementation effort. Prior to joining CFA Institute, Ms. Singh served as a Policy Advisor for the Institute of International Finance where she worked on international policy initiatives in the areas of financial reporting and audit. She was General Manager and Financial Controller of Disha, a service organization dedicated to development programs for the underprivileged, and an audit manager at KPMG supervising audits and conducting due diligence reviews.
She is an ACA and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Craig qualified as an accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland while working in audit for BDO Jersey. After three years at BDO he left to join the financial services audit practice of Deloitte UK.
Craig joined the IASB in 2016, initially as a Technical Associate but latterly as an Assistant Technical Manager and then Technical Manager. Through the time at the IASB he has worked in the Implementation team. This has involved working with the IFRS Interpretations Committee to address implementation questions raised by stakeholders. In particular, Craig has focused on implementation questions about IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers.
Craig has also been monitoring developments in cryptocurrencies on behalf of the IASB since December 2016.
Kris Peach was appointed as Chair of the Australian Accounting Standards Board (the Board) for a five-year term in November 2014 and has extensive experience in accounting standards setting. Prior to this appointment, she served the Board as its deputy chair (2004 to 2012) and was a member of the AASB’s Urgent Issues Group (2004 to 2005).
As part of her role as AASB Chair, Kris serves as a board member on both the Australian <a href="http://www.frc.gov.au/about_the_frc/">Financial Reporting Council</a> and the <a href="https://www.xrb.govt.nz/about-xrb/nzasb/">New Zealand Accounting Standards Board</a>. She also represents Australia at an international level as a member of both the <a href="https://www.iasplus.com/en/resources/ifrsf/advisory/asaf">Accounting Standards Advisory Forum</a> and the <a href="http://www.aossg.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&… Oceanic Standard-Setters Group</a>.
From 2002 to 2014, Kris was a partner in KPMG’s International Standards Group and Australia’s Department of Professional Practice where she interpreted complex technical accounting issues for a wide range of public and private entities. She has also held a number of international financial reporting leadership roles within the firm.
Kris was the director at Open Gardens Victoria (2014 to 2015) and has volunteered as treasurer at a number of community groups.
Kris holds a Master’s in Business in Accounting from the Queensland University of Technology and a Bachelor in Business at Central Queensland University.
Yasunobu Kawanishi is a Board member of the Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ). He started his career as an auditor with Asahi & Co., a firm that is now part of KPMG AZSA LLC. He has been involved in accounting standard-setting since 2003, and has experience working as a staff member of the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
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