Willie joined the IAASB in January 2019. He leads the IAASB team in advancing the IAASB’s strategy and work program and works closely with the IAASB Chair in managing the activities of the Board.

Willie has a broad range of experience in different aspects of the audit profession, after previously serving as a Senior Executive at the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Senior Technical Specialist at the Auditor General South Africa and an audit partner and technical director at an audit firm. Willie was also the head of the Department of Accounting, and Associate Professor of Auditing, at the University of Pretoria.

He has previously served as a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountant’s Assurance Guidance Committee and the South African audit regulator’s Committee for Auditing Standards.

As Head of Communications, Jennifer DiClerico develops and executes strategies across various media platforms that advance the global accountancy profession and IFAC’s public interest mission. This includes oversight of all executive and leadership communications, media relations, digital and social communications, and reputation management.

Ms. DiClerico’s communications career spans more than 20 years in the financial and technology sectors, during which time she led communications for Investment Banking & Global Markets at Bank of America and most recently served as Senior Vice President in Edelman’s Financial Services Practice.

Prior to joining IFAC, Ms. DiClerico also served as a Director at CA Technologies; Director of Public Relations and Investor Communications at SoundView Technology Group; and Head of Communications at an international broker dealer.

Ms. DiClerico holds a B.A. in English and Business Writing from Lehigh University.

The International Audit and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) announced today that after an extensive global search Mr. Willie Botha has been appointed IAASB Technical Director.

In this role, Mr. Botha leads a team that works closely with the IAASB and its Chair to advance the international audit and assurance standard-setting program and engage with key stakeholders to heighten audit quality worldwide and enhance credibility and trust in external reporting.

Mr. Botha brings a wealth of experience to the IAASB team. Most recently he served as Senior Executive, Assurance and Practice, with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA), where he was responsible for advancement and support of the profession in the audit and assurance field. He has also served as Member to the Institute’s Assurance Guidance Committee, and Member to the Audit Regulator’s Committee for Auditing Standards. His prior roles included serving as Senior Technical Specialist responsible for the audit methodology project of the Auditor General South Africa, and practicing Audit Partner and Technical Director with a firm based in Pretoria, South Africa, as well as serving as head of Department of Accounting, and as Associate Professor of Auditing, at the University of Pretoria.

Henning Diederichs became the Technical Advisor to the UK member of IPSASB in January 2019. He was nominated by the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB), an umbrella group of chartered professional bodies of British qualified chartered accountants (ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS and Chartered Accountants Ireland).

Mr. Diederichs is a senior technical manager, specializing in public sector financial and non-financial reporting at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). His role includes supporting the UK Ministry of Finance in their application of the TCFD (Task Force on Climate related Financial Disclosures) framework, reviewing the capitals approach (Capitals Coalition) regarding impacts and dependencies across government and contributing to ICAEW’s literature on a wide range of subjects including a comparison between IFRS and IPSAS.

Mr. Diederichs has over ten years of technical accounting experience in both the public and private sectors. Before joining ICAEW in 2015, he helped construct and implement the Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) consolidation process at the UK's Ministry of Finance, specializing in intra-governmental transactions and balances. Prior to that he worked for Barclays PLC in their group finance division covering areas such as goodwill, credit risk, joint ventures and associates.

Mr. Diederichs is a fellow of ICAEW and graduated with a BA in economics from the University of Essex (UK).

Lynn Pamment was appointed as a member of IPSASB in January 2019.  She was nominated by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).

Ms. Pamment is Comptroller & Auditor General for Jersey, an appointment she took up in January 2020.  Prior to her appointment in Jersey she was a lead partner in PwC UK’s Government and Public Sector Assurance practice where she gained over 30 years experience of working in an assurance and advisory capacity with public and private sector organisations in the UK and beyond.

Ms. Pamment is a first class honours graduate from the University College Cardiff.  She is a prize winning member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and is also a member of CIPFA.

Ms. Pamment has led a number of high profile reviews on behalf of the Government in Wales.  She is also the Chair of the Financial Reporting Advisory Board to HM Treasury in the UK.

Her Technical Advisor is Henning Diederichs.

Ms. Luzvi Chatto joined the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board in January 2019. She was nominated by the Commission on Audit (COA), the Supreme Audit Institution of the Philippines, and the Philippine Regulatory Board of Accountancy. She returned as an independent member in 2022 following her retirement from the COA. 

Ms. Chatto is the retired Assistant Commissioner of the Commission on Audit (COA). During her career spanning 41 years with the COA, Ms. Chatto also led audits of various government agencies, the United Nations and its agencies in New York, Pakistan, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ivory Coast, and Guinea, and foreign-based Philippine government agencies. She also headed COA’s Human Resource Management Office, Information Technology Office, Cordillera Administrative Region, Accounting Systems Development and Other Services Office, and Government Accountancy Office.

Ms. Chatto has been actively involved in and immensely contributed to the conceptualization and implementation of the Philippine Public Financial Management Reform Roadmap since 2010. She was COA’s focal person in the 2015/2016 Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Assessment conducted by the World Bank Group. She is an IntoSAINT (INTOSAI Self-Assessment on INTegrity) Moderator; a member of various inter-agency committees including the PFM Committee, Budget and Treasury Management System Steering Committee and Technical Working Group on Government eReceipt and ePayment Project; a member of the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Government Association of Certified Public Accountants; and Executive Vice President of the Government Financial Management Innovators’ Circle, Inc.

Ms. Chatto is a Certified Public Accountant. She graduated from the Baliuag University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce (Cum Laude) in 1977 and obtained her Graduate Diploma in Development Administration from the Australian National University in 1997 as an AusAID scholar.

Watch former International Accounting Education Standards Board Chair Chris Austin reflect on his four years leading efforts to enhance professional development and education for the accountancy profession.

The global search for an exceptional individual to lead the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) is in its final weeks with all applications from qualified candidates due by January 31, 2019.

The Chair leads the IAASB’s strategic direction and development of high-quality international audit standards, as well as facilitates the consultative processes that underpin the board’s credibility and activities. The Chair develops and maintains effective relationships with international oversight authorities and regulatory bodies, national standard setters, investor and preparer communities, the audit practitioner community and other key stakeholders.

The successful candidate has significant, senior-level experience and is well recognized within professional and regulatory communities. He or she has effective leadership, diplomacy, communication and strategic skills; demonstrated professional competency; and a strong commitment to the IAASB’s public interest mission. He or she also understands the significant travel commitment involved.

The IAASB Chair is appointed for a renewable three-year term, commencing May 1, 2019. A complete job description, along with application instructions, is available on the IAASB website. Applications are due January 31, 2019.

This global search is being conducted by the Interim Nominating Committee, which was formed in February 2018 to conduct the process for the next IAASB Chair. The search has recently restarted after the designated appointee decided not to assume the post for personal reasons. More information on the Committee is available online.

Alexandra Penuela became a member of the IFAC Small and Medium Practices Committee in January 2019. She was nominated by the National Institute of Public Accounts of Colombia (INCP).

Alexandra is the Director for GCMS for KPMG Colombia. She has more than 20 years of experience in audit, accounting, outsourcing and advisory services across different economic sectors with a focus on the oil & gas industry working for PwC, BDO and Arthur Andersen, among other entities in Colombia and England.

She also served as Technical Director for INCP for several years.

She is part of Audit and IFRS Technical Committees serving as Chair or as well as Technical Secretary.

Alexandra is a Public Accountant from the Santo Tomas University in Colombia with a MSc in Computer Systems Auditing from London Metropolitan University and Management Studies of the O&G industry from the University of Texas at Dallas.

John Nagy became a member of the IFAC Small and Medium Practices Committee in January 2019. He was nominated by Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada).

Mr. Nagy is a Shareholder and Director in Reid Hurst Nagy Inc, a Richmond B.C.-based SMP accounting practice. He has over 30 years of experience in the accounting profession as a professional advisor to owner-managed businesses and not-for-profit organizations.

Mr. Nagy most recently served on the Board of Directors of CPA Canada until 2018. He is a past President of the Certified General Accountants of British Columbia and past Chair of CGA Canada. He has served 6 years on the Accounting Standards Oversight Council of Canada and 6 years on the Real Estate Council of B.C.

Mr. Nagy is a Fellow of CPA Canada, and is a Life Member and Fellow of CPA BC.