Angelo Giardina joined the IAASB in June 2023, with an initial focus on the fraud and technology projects. Prior to joining the IAASB, Angelo was at the Canadian Public Accountability Board (CPAB), the oversight body for audits of public companies in Canada. In his most recent role as Head of CPAB's Thought Leadership Group, he contributed to developing CPAB’s perspectives on a number of audit quality topics, including the auditor’s role in detecting and responding to fraud in financial statement audits, the benefits and challenges of using technology in audits, and good practices when auditing crypto-assets.
Angelo is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in Canada.
Héctor J. Lehuedé became a member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) effective June 2023.
Héctor is the CEO of Razor Consulting, a boutique advisory firm based in Santiago, Chile, that since 2019 serves organizations all over Latin America on corporate governance, ethics & compliance, and sustainability. Prior to starting his firm, Héctor was for eight years a senior manager at the Corporate Affairs and Corporate Finance Division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France. There, he was in charge of organizing the work of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee, which brings together experts from all member/partner countries, and for conducting policy dialogue, research, and assessments of the implementation of OECD standards across jurisdictions.
Before joining the OECD, Héctor was a senior advisor to the Minister of Finance in Chile for four years and practiced corporate and tax law for over a decade in leading legal and audit firms in Chile. He serves as independent nonexecutive director in listed and private entities and is an affiliate professor at the Corporate Governance Center of Pontificia Universidad Católica.
Héctor has a J.D. degree from Universidad de Chile Law School and holds a master's degree (JSM) from Stanford University Law School. He is also a certified company director by the UK’s Institute of Directors.
Johan Barros is the Head of Policy at Accountancy Europe, based in Brussels. In this role, he continues to specialise in analysing, influencing and monitoring the EU’s SME policy decision-making and representing small accountancy practices’ views, along with leading the organisation’s public affairs efforts across other topics.
As mandatory disclosure requirements become the norm for global organisations, the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and other entities have collaborated to release new guidance for delivering robust greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting.