David Tweedie

Country: United Kingdom

Sir David Tweedie became a member of the IFAC Nominating Committee in January 2012 after being nominated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS).

Sir David was the first Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, serving from January 2001 until his term ended in June 2011. He became president of ICAS in April 2012.

Sir David began his career teaching accounting at Edinburgh University (UK). He was appointed technical director of ICAS in 1978 and became national technical partner of Thomson McLintock & Co. in 1982. After a merger in 1987, Sir David became national technical partner at KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock.

During this period he was also Vice Chairman and then Chairman of the Auditing Practices Committee (UK) from 1986 to 1990, and was the UK's representative on the International Auditing Practices Committee from 1983 to 1988.

Sir David was then appointed as the first full-time Chairman of the newly created Accounting Standards Board (UK) in 1990.

Sir David is a Fellow of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge (UK) and a visiting Professor of Accounting in the Management School at University of Edinburgh (UK), having previously held visiting professorships at Lancaster University and the University of Bristol (both UK). Sir David has been awarded honorary degrees by eight British universities, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales' Founding Societies Centenary Award in 1997, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Award 1998, and the IFAC International Gold Service Award in 2011 for services to the accountancy profession.

Sir David was educated at Edinburgh University (BCom 1966, PhD 1969) and qualified as a Scottish Chartered Accountant in 1972.