Job Title: IPSASB CAG Chair

Fabienne Colignon became Chair of the Consultative Advisory Group (CAG) of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) in July 2023. Prior to her appointment as Chair of the IPSASB CAG, Fabienne was an active and experienced member of the CAG since 2016, and a regular observer of the IPSASB.

Fabienne has extensive expertise in public sector accounting and reporting through her role with the French Public Sector Accounting Standard-Setter, Conseil de Normalisation des Comptes Publics (the CNoCP), a council body within the Ministry of Finance, since 2013. Prior to joining the CNoCP, Fabienne was an audit professional, and served as a Practice Fellow with the IFRS Interpretations Committee. Fabienne has closely followed the work of the IPSASB as a French representative for the EPSAS project for the European Commission and for the CNoCP.

Harpal's role at IFAC entails contributing to and promoting the development, adoption, and implementation of high-quality international standards. Harpal also has responsibility for IFAC’s SME (small- and medium-sized entities), SMP (small- and medium-sized practices), and research initiatives, which include developing thought leadership, public policy, and advocacy materials.

Prior to joining IFAC, Harpal spent ten years working for Grant Thornton UK LLP, where he was first part of the Public Sector and Commercial Assurance practices, before joining the Financial Reporting technical team. Harpal helped develop the firm’s Financial Reporting advisory offering outside of London and then joined the Business Consulting team specializing in finance consulting and talent solutions. Prior to joining GT, Harpal was a Public Sector auditor for the Audit Commission in the UK.

Isabelle joined the IAASB in June 2023, supporting various key projects, including audits of less complex entities.

Prior to her role at IAASB, Isabelle worked in Deloitte Canada’s national office, as well as MNP’s assurance professional standards group. Her role involved developing audit and assurance methodology, tools and guidance and designing learning sessions for new and revised standards. Isabelle also participated in drafting numerous global and Canadian specific comment letters.

Isabelle is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in Canada (Québec).

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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.

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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.