Keddie Waller is an experienced policy advocate who is passionate about the important role professional accountants play in their community as the trusted adviser. 

Previous roles Keddie has held include Head of Public Practice and SME with CPA Australia, where she and her team were responsible for the development, servicing, representation, and compliance of CPA Australia public practice members, and Senior Policy Adviser - Financial Planning.

Laura Friedrich is a principal of Friedrich & Friedrich corp, a professional research, standards, and education consultancy firm, and has over 20 years’ experience conducting projects worldwide. The firm focuses on building institutional capacity and developing strategic, policy, program, governance, and ethics guidance for established and emerging professional and regulatory organizations. Previous to this, she worked in education for CPA Canada (then CGA Canada) and in the Greater Vancouver assurance practice of KPMG LLP.

Ms. Friedrich is a contributing author on a number of World Bank publications in the area of competency-based education, training, and certification. She has also served as an author, lecturer, and examiner for numerous post-secondary programs in Canada and internationally, and has guided several institutions in developing and implementing ethics training programs. She has led hundreds of professional development sessions in a wide range of topic areas including ethics, governance, information systems, and curriculum development.

Ms. Friedrich has served on the Ethics Committee of CPA BC and continues to serve on its Bylaws Committee – responsible for the ongoing review of regulatory and professional standards in the jurisdiction, including the CPA Code of Professional Conduct. 

Ms. Friedrich holds a Master of Science in Business Administration (UBC) and is designated as a Certified Internal Auditor (Institute of Internal Auditors). She became a Canadian CPA in 2001, was awarded fellowship in 2011, and was granted life membership in 2014 for her service to the profession in education, ethics, and regulation.

Chantyl Mulder joined SAICA in 1999 to head up the Education and Training division which was newly set up after the education and training of CAs moved from the IRBA to SAICA. Chantyl is also the Chairman of the AAT(SA). She is a former CUT Council member and is currently a WSU Council member and chair of the Finance Committee as well as a member of The Technical Working Group which advises the Human Resource development Council, chaired by the Deputy President, on human resource development in South Africa - which is a ministerial appointment.

Ichiro Waki became a member of the IFAC Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Advisory Group in January 2020. He was nominated by the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA).

Mr. Ichiro Waki is the Group CEO of JBA Group, who has been established since 2006 with 5 co-partners and now with more than 100 professionals in various areas to provide such consulting services as accounting, tax, legal, labor, IT and recruitment. Before the current career, he has been a financial controller and FP&A in Japanese subsidiaries of the US and European based companies since 1996, and worked as an auditor in Coopers & Lybrand Tokyo since 1992 after he passed the CPA examination while in Waseda University.

Mr. Ichiro Waki has been an executive board member of JICPA since 2019 and served in various volunteer leadership roles with the JICPA, including as Chairperson of PAIB Committee, and as a leadership member of D&I (Diversity and Inclusion). In the past 10 years, he has been working in a committee of JICPA to develop CPE programs (5 years for CPAs in private practice and latest 5 years for PAIBs).

CPA Margaret Muinde was appointed a member of the Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Advisory Group of International Federation Accountants (IFAC) in January 2020 representing Africa and Middle East Region. Ms. Muinde was nominated by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK).

Ms. Muinde has over 15 years’ wealth of knowledge and experience at managerial positions in finance and financial management, external audit, taxation, strategy, risk management, corporate governance, accounting, taxation, procurement, internal audit and consulting in public, private and non-governmental organizations ranging from manufacturing, education, infrastructure sectors in and out of Kenya. Ms. Muinde has worked in various capacities in Kenya Roads Board, Ernst & Young (EY) and PKF International. Ms. Muinde has had multi-jurisdiction exposure dealing with various regulatory reporting requirements and is also well versed in formulation of policies.

Ms. Muinde is a Certified Public Accountant and member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) and a pioneering member of Association of Women Accountants of Kenya (AWAK). Ms. Muinde is serving the second term in ICPAK’s - Strategy & Finance Committee having been first appointed in 2017. The committee is entrusted with an oversight role on the Institute’s financial management, strategic planning, monitoring and reporting, ICT strategy and implementation, and facilities management and reports to the ICPAK Council and liases with other committees on the Institute on matters pertaining professional accountants in business.

Ms. Muinde holds Masters in Business Administration (Finance Option) and Bachelor of Arts (Double Mathematics and Economics), both from the University of Nairobi. She is also a Certified Public Secretary of Kenya (CPSK) finalist. MS. Muinde holds post graduate certificates in Senior Leadership Development Programme, Board competence from Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Results Based Management (RBM) and Performance Measures from Setym International, Canada, Senior Executive Programme in Road Financing, Restructuring and Management from University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Project Planning and Management from Danida Fellowship Programme, among others. Ms. Muinde is also both ISO 9001: 2015 - Quality Management Systems and ISO 27001: 2013 - Information Security Management Systems Certified Auditor. Ms. Muinde has attended several other courses locally and internationally.

Ms. Muinde has also been instrumental in the coordination and organization of the Financial Reporting in various organizations as both an auditor and financial analyst / manager, which has led to recognition of the Kenya Roads Board in the Financial Reporting Award (FiRe Award) annual ceremony, which awards financial reporting excellence in Kenya and the East African region. Ms. Muinde has a wide exposure on global practices in professional accounting and practice having lead the 1st institution on Kenya in the adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs).

Ms. Muinde current responsibilities in her current role include planning, budgeting and reporting, development, coordination and implementation of policies and strategies, ensuring compliance with International Standards, treasury management and taxation, financial reporting, strategic management and leadership including performance contracting and development and monitoring of work plans, resource mobilization, risk management, governance and compliance, human and ICT resources management, among others. Ms. Muinde is currently one of the team player in the USD 1.5 Billion Roads Development Infrastructure Financing in Kenya.