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David Madon

IFAC Senior Advisor to the CEO

David Madon joined IFAC in 2019, where he has most recently served as Director - Sustainability, Policy & Regulatory Affairs, responsible for developing and coordinating IFAC’s sustainability policy and advocacy activities. He also leads IFAC’s research and analysis of private equity investment in the accountancy profession. Other areas of expertise include corporate reporting, audit quality, ethics, investor protection, financial market regulation, and credit markets. Prior to IFAC, Mr. Madon represented the IFRS Foundation in the U.S. for nearly a decade, during which he focused on building institutional investor relationships and the adoption of IFRS Standards. Prior to his public policy work, Mr. Madon spent twenty-five years in financial services, most recently as a Managing Director at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

He holds a Masters in Public Administration-MC from the Harvard Kennedy School, an MBA in Finance from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a BS in Management-Accounting from Purdue University Northwest.

 
 
Scott Hanson

As IFAC's former Director, Policy & Global Engagement, Scott Hanson was responsible for coordinating IFAC’s engagement strategy with global organizations and non-accountancy stakeholders. Mr. Hanson also led IFAC’s policy and advocacy related to anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and economic crime, and oversaw IFAC’s engagement in donor-funded capacity building initiatives.

Mr. Hanson began his career in markets supervision roles at NYSE Regulation and FINRA (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) in New York, before transitioning into international regulatory policy at FINRA in Washington, DC. 

Mr. Hanson then worked in regulatory policy within the European System of Financial Supervision at the Central Bank of Ireland (Dublin), touching on diverse policy areas across the Bank and leading the establishment of the Central Bank of Ireland’s Innovation Hub.

Mr. Hanson holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. 

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