IOSCO World Investor Week Series: Staying Informed and Protected with Emerging Technology

IFAC's Contribution to IOSCO World Investor Week 2025

Each year, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) hosts World Investor Week, a global campaign that promotes the importance of investor education and protection. As a proud partner of IOSCO, IFAC is committed to raising awareness about investor education—especially as it relates to the global professional accountancy profession.

At IFAC, we are honored to contribute to this initiative, which speaks directly to our mission: serving the public interest by strengthening financial literacy, not just for professional accountants, but for everyone. One of the ways we contribute is through our ongoing World Investor Week video series. These videos are designed to make accounting more accessible, helping investors better understand the fundamentals of our profession and how those fundamentals connect to smart, informed investment decisions.

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Mariyam Azka Ismail

Mariyam Azka Ismail is pursuing ACCA qualification and is currently interning at Nexia Maldives through Excelerate Programme. Azka is acquiring practical experience in various aspects of accountancy with a particular focus on audit. Her enthusiasm for the profession and dedication to continuous learning drive her career aspirations.

Mariyam Azka Ismail joined the IFAC Young Leaders Collective as a founding member in August 2024.

Cleber Fernandes

Cleber Fernandes has worked as an Audit Manager at Deloitte since 2020. Additionally, he has represented Deloitte at IBRACON.

Cleber joined the IFAC Young Leaders Collective as a founding member in August 2024.

Harry Ho

Harry Ho is an entrepreneur, a corporate advisor, an angel investor. He has worked for two of the Big Four accounting firms and was the youngest and first person of Chinese descent appointed to board of the Italian Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong and Macau.

Harry is a certified public accountant (“CPA”), a Certified Internal Auditor (“CIA”), a charter holder of Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”), Chartered Global Management Accountant (“CGMA”), and Chartered Management Accountant (“ACMA”).

Harry joined the IFAC Young Leaders Collective as a founding member in August 2024.

Lee White

Chief Executive Officer, IFAC

Lee White, FCA became IFAC's Chief Executive Officer in March 2024. IFAC is the global organization for the accountancy profession, comprising 180 member and associate organizations in 135 jurisdictions, representing millions of professional accountants.

Lee is a professional accountant and a member of ACCA and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ). During his career, he has worked as an assurance practitioner in both the private (PWC) and public sectors (Auditor-General of NSW), a securities and audit inspector regulator, leader of a professional accounting body, and as a leader of an international public interest organization supporting both global financial reporting and sustainability standards. He has predominately been dedicated in his career to serving the public interest.

He served the IFRS Foundation from 2018 to 2024, as the Managing Director and during his tenure there was the transformational creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) within the IFRS Foundation, and the launch of the ISSB’s first two sustainability standards in June 2023.

Before joining the IFRS Foundation, Lee spent nine years leading Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand or its predecessor body, including six years as its inaugural Chief Executive Officer (2012-2017). CAANZ was created from the unique combination of chartered accounting institutes in Australia and New Zealand which Lee fulfilled a pivotal role in securing successful member votes (super majorities) in both countries. He also worked as the Chief Accountant at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for six years, during which time he represented Australia at the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and was directly involved in the creation and initial years of operation of the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators (IFIAR).

Lee is a proud graduate of Executive Leadership from INSEAD.