Gary Pflugrath

Job Title: Director, Public Policy and Regulation
Country: Australia

Gary Pflugrath joined IFAC in 2011 and assumed his current role as Director, Public Policy and Regulation, in January 2013. In this role, Mr. Pflugrath has responsibility for the public policy and regulation function of IFAC, which, as the global organization representing the accountancy profession, researches and represents the views of the profession and its stakeholders. IFAC takes a leadership position on public interest issues where the accountancy profession’s expertise is most relevant.

Mr. Pflugrath’s positions prior to joining IFAC include working for nearly 20 years at the Reserve Bank of Australia, where in 2002 he was the senior manager responsible for the Bank’s accounting policy and reporting. He then moved to the University of New South Wales (UNSW), as a lecturer in accounting, to pursue his ambition to complete doctoral studies. Subsequently, he held the position of policy adviser (audit and assurance) at CPA Australia.

Mr. Pflugrath holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) Degree from Chisholm Institute of Technology (now Monash University) and a Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Melbourne. He received his Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from UNSW in 2008. He has published referred articles in several academic journals, including Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, the Journal of Business Ethics, and the International Journal of Auditing. Mr. Pflugrath has been a CPA in Australia for more than twenty years.