Arnold Schilder

Job Title: Chairman
Country: Netherlands

Prof. Arnold Schilder became Chair of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board in January 2009. He was nominated by the Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut van Registeraccountants (Royal NIVRA).

From 1998 to 2008, Prof. Schilder was a member of the Managing Board of the Dutch Central Bank, responsible in particular for banking regulation and supervision. In addition, he served as the Chair of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's Accounting Task Force from 1999-2006, and from 2005-2008 as a member of the Public Interest Oversight Board. During 1994 and 1995 he served also as President of Royal NIVRA. From 1972 to 1998 he worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers, serving since 1985 as an international audit partner.

He served as part-time Professor of Auditing at the Universities of Amsterdam and Maastricht from 1988 to 2009. He studied theology and accountancy, and earned a Ph.D. in auditor independence in 1994.

CPA Australia's monthly magazine In the Black features a profile of Prof. Schilder. Read the full article here. (July 2010)