Kohei Kan became an IFAC Board member in November 2020, and was nominated by the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA).

Mr. Kan was formerly a board member of Deloitte Japan (2013-2015), CEO of Deloitte Japan - Audit and Assurance entity (2015-2018), and the Audit & Assurance Leader of Deloitte Asia Pacific (2018-2019).

Mr. Kan holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Yokohama National University and is a Japanese CPA.

CA. Atul Kumar Gupta, is serving on the Board of IFAC since November 2020 Nominated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, he has served the Accountancy Profession for more than two decades, widely respected for his strong organisational skills and deep insight in the affairs of profession.

He has vast experience in SMP Practice, specializing in Management Consultancy, Taxation especially GST, ITES, Audit.

During his association with the ICAI as Council Member since 2013, he served as the President of ICAI (2020-21) and as Vice President (2019-2020).  

His experience at ICAI spans through education, examination, CPD, research, I&D and system development with strong focus towards IT architecture. Under his stewardship at Board of Studies, the New Scheme of Education and Training of ICAI that was benchmarked with the revised International Education Standards, was launched in 2017.Through ICAI-ARF, he is credited for the project of preparation of accrual-based financial statements of the Indian Railways (third largest Railway of world).

He remained the chairman of CPD Committee of SAFA, Member of PFM Committee of CAPA, Member of IRDAI, SEBI Primary Advisory Committee and GASAB. He served XBRL India, Accounting Research Foundation and Registered Valuers Organisation, Indian Institute of Insolvency of ICAI as Chairman.

Being thoroughly conversant with the professional concerns and demands of his times, CA. Gupta has authored many relevant books and has published numerous articles in leading newspapers, magazines and professional newsletters, and delivered lectures in about 1500 seminars and conferences.

Presently he is also on Board of XBRL International and many other reputed organisation in India.

Taryn Rulton, FCA, joined the IFAC Board in November 2020 having been nominated by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ). 

Ms. Rulton is the Chief Commercial Officer at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She commenced her career in the UK private sector and, since moving to Australia, has held CFO and other senior executive positions in several public sector agencies and organizations. Ms. Rulton has held non-executive director and other governance appointments with organizations in the health, human services and integrity space. She brings experience in standard setting, having served as a board member at the Australian Accounting Standards Board from 2014-2019.

Ms. Rulton has been an active member of CAANZ for more than 15 years and has chaired its Victorian Regional Council. She currently provides support to CAANZ's ethics and integrity framework through membership of the Professional Conduct Oversight Committee.

Chiara Mio joined the IFAC Board in November 2020; she was nominated by the Consiglio Nazionale dei Dottori
Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili.

Ms. Mio is a CPA and statutory auditor in Pordenone (Venice) and chairs the National Working Group on Social Reporting,
CNDCEC's Sustainability and Corporate Reporting Working Group, and the ESG task force of the Sustainability Group at
Accountancy Europe. 

Ms. Mio is Full Professor at Ca' Foscari State University of Venezia, teaching corporate reporting, management control,
strategic planning and sustainability management and contributes to the sustainability strategy of Ca' Foscari from 2009 to
2014. She is also director of an innovative master degree on management of strategic social innovation, member of the
association of accounting and management professors (SIDREA), the association of history of accounting studies
(SISR), of the Academy of Business Studies (AIEA), the Editorial board, and a reviewer for several national and
international journals.

Ms. Mio is the author of articles and books about integrated reporting, social responsibility, performance measurement
and sustainability as a strategic perspective in value creation. In her professional life she serves on the board of directors
of different listed companies, chairs the sustainability committees of important groups and, in 2014, was appointed as
Chair of Crédit Agricole Italia Group, the first woman in this role in Italy.

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Across the world, governments face the unprecedented impact of major simultaneous public health and economic crises. The on-going pandemic and looming economic recession require government interventions, which will likely impact public finances for years.

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