Robyn is a partner in Brooke Bird, a specialist restructuring insolvency and turnaround firm located in Melbourne Australia and has been actively involved in the public practice sector for over 30 years.

Robyn previously served as a member of the IFAC Small and Medium Practices Committee, having been nominated by CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Robyn is a director of CPA Australia having been appointed to the board in 2017. She has served on CPA Australia’s Victorian Division and Victorian Public Practice Committee and in 2014 Robyn was awarded the Henry Fox Award for outstanding service to Public Practice in Victoria.

In 2011 Robyn became the first female to be appointed as the National President of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia, now known as the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA) and served as a director of ARITA until May 2019. In 2017 Robyn was awarded Life Membership to ARITA for long, dedicated and distinguished service to ARITA and the Profession.

Robyn is a current councilor of the Australian Institute of Credit Management’s Victorian Tasmanian Division.

Jamie Shannon is a Director in the PwC Network's Global Assurance Quality function, with responsibility for Standards and Auditor Reporting.

Mr. Shannon coordinates the PwC network’s monitoring of the IAASB’s agenda, including the development of responses to IAASB’s exposure drafts. He was also a member of the team that led the implementation of the Clarity International Standards on Auditing into the PwC network’s global methodology and was a member of the project team for PwC’s global Auditor Reporting Working Group. He is also the Chair of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales' ISA Panel, the committee that monitors and provides input on the IAASB agenda.

Mr. Shannon is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. He began his career in 2000 in PwC’s assurance practice in Glasgow before transferring to his current role in 2010.

Good governance is fundamental to the effective functioning of the world’s capital markets and to organizations in creating sustainable value for their stakeholders. IFAC strongly believes that the ultimate objective of governance is to ensure the creation of sustainable organizational success and stakeholder value; these are the core elements of every organization that strives to be competitive and sustainable over the long term.

IFAC believes good governance, risk management, and internal control are fundamental to the effective functioning of the world’s capital markets and to organizations, including banks in particular, in creating sustainable value for their stakeholders. Overall, IFAC welcomes enhancements to the Basel Principles as they aim to strengthen risk governance, clarify the role of the board of directors in this regard, emphasize board competence, provide guidance for bank supervisors, and point out the influence of compensation systems.