Yacouba Traoré became a member of the International Public Sector Accounting Standard Board in January 2024. He was nominated by ONECCA-BF.

Mr. Traoré taught international accounting standards and regional public sector accounting standards for years in higher School Institutions. Practitioner with 25 years of experience, he serves private and public sector entities. He contributes on a regular basis to international standards setting through comments submission and standards setters' forum attendances.

Mr. Traoré is the chair of the Pan African Federation of Accountants (PAFA)'s Public Value Management Technical & Advisory Group since April 2022 and leads all that group activities. He is ONECCA-BF president and vice President of the National Accounting Council of Burkina Faso in charge of private and public sector accounting regulation and interpretation since October 2020.

Mr. Traoré sits in various professional accountancy organizations boards including PAFA, Féderation Internationale des Experts Comptes et Commissaires aux Comptes Francophones (FIDEF), the Conseil Permanent de la Profession Comptable (CPPC) an advisory council to the West African Monetary and Economic Union (WAEMU) and the Commission de Normalisation pour la Profession Comptable OHADA (CNPC OHADA) a regulatory body within the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa Organization (OHADA). He holds a chartered accountant degree namely Diplôme d'Expertise Comptable et Financière (DECOFI) and a master’s degree in finances, control & audit.

His Technical Advisor is Iheanyi Anyahara.

Dr. Neema Kiure Mssusa joined the IFAC Nominating Committee in January 2024 after serving at the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) for six years (from 2018 to 2023) and at the IPSASB Consultative Advisory Group for two years (from 2016 to 2017).

Dr. Kiure Mssusa, a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional, has been the team leader in the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) implementation project for the Government of Tanzania from 2008 to 2022. She has assisted the Tanzania Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Local Government Authorities, and other Public Sector Entities on IPSAS implementation projects. Tanzania started complying with accrual based IPSAS during the year ended 30 June 2013. As a member of the National Board of Accountants and Auditors (NBAA) Technical Committee since 2008 she has been working closely with NBAA to ensure that the accountancy profession in Tanzania is compliant with applicable international and local standards accordingly.

She is an Assurance Partner at Ernst & Young Tanzania, where she serves several private and public sector entities. Dr. Kiure Mssusa was a Board Member of the NBAA from October 2014 to May 2021 and the Vice Chairperson of the same from June 2018 to May 2021. She is the current Chairperson of the Tanzania Association of Women Accountants (TAWCA) and a member of the Interim Academic Advisory Committee (IAAC) of the African Professionalization Initiative (API).

Yan Zhao became a member of the IFAC SMP Advisory Group (SMPAG) in January 2023. She was nominated by the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA).

Mrs. Zhao is the Deputy Director of Continuing Professional Department at CICPA, and formerly worked in CICPA’s Quality Assurance Department and Registration Department at CICPA. She has been in an 1-year internship program at KPMG Melbourne office.

Mrs. Zhao earned her Master of Accounting degree from the Central University of Finance and Economics in China.

Takuma Kinjo became a member of the IFAC SMP Advisory Group (SMPAG) in January 2023. He was nominated by the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA).

As a chair of JICPA’s SMP IT Support Task Force, Mr. Kinjo has contributed to building a sharing system of IT infrastructure among SMPs that enables IT personnel to exchange ideas and best practices. He has worked with IT tools for data analysis and led workshops on how to use these tools in practice.

Mr. Kinjo received his CPA qualification in 2007 while working as a senior in financial services with Shinnihon Ernst & Young in Japan. He holds a Bachelor of Molecular Biology degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Therese Andersson was appointed to the IFAC SMP Committee in January 2024. She was nominated by NRF (Nordic Federation of public accountants). 

Therese is currently Head of Compliance at Accru Partners. Formerly she served as the head of department and director Membership at FAR - the Swedish institute for the accountancy profession. She is authorized public accountant with more than 20 years of experience from audit and advisory services to a wide range of SMEs in various industries. Prior FAR she was CEO and HR-director for an owner-owned company for 2,5 years after 15 years at KPMG Sweden as senior manager. 

Therese earned her bachelor's degree in organization theory and accounting from Örebro University, Sweden and since 2010 qualified as an authorized public accountant, by the Swedish Inspectorate of Auditors. 

Dr. Giorgia Butturi became member in January 2024 nominated by the Italian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CNDCEC). 

Dr. Butturi is Certified Public Accountant and registered auditor, auditor of several limited companies, including banks and regulated financial services companies. She is member of NedCommunity (Independent Board Members' Association) and Marisa Bellisario Foundation (Women Entrepreneurial's and Practitioners' Union). 

Dr. Butturi is past member of the SMEs/SMPs Committee of Accountancy Europe (once called FEE - Fédération des Experts Comptables Européen) in Bruxelles, Belgium, on behalf of CNDCEC, member of the SMEs/SMPs Committee of EFAA (European Foundation of Accountants and Auditors), in Bruxelles, Belgium, on behalf of CNDCEC and member of the Audit Affairs Committee of Unione Nazionale Giovani Dottori Commercialisti (Italian Young Accountants' Union), in Rome. 

Dr. Butturi is past President of the Board of Directors of a Bank Foundation (a foundation regulated by law which originally held shares in Banks, now independent). 

Jimmy joined Mazars Hong Kong in 2000 and has since been actively involved in auditing companies of various sizes. He was nominated by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

He held the positions of Head of Quality & Assurance from 2014 to 2018 and Head of Audit from 2018 to 2020 at Mazars Hong Kong. Currently, Jimmy serves as the Managing Director at Mazars Hong Kong. 

Furthermore, Jimmy has been a Council Member of Hong Kong Association of Registered Public Interest Entity Auditors Limited since its establishment in 2021. He also holds the role of Deputy Chairman of the Small and Medium Practitioners Committee at the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. 

Josephine Okui Ossiya joined IFAC’s Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Advisory Group in January 2024. She was nominated by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda.  

Mrs. Ossiya is the CEO of Capital Markets Authority Uganda. Previously, she was the Chief Finance Officer of Bujagali Energy Limited. Effective February 1, 2024, she will be the CEO of Capital Markets Authority Uganda.  Previously, she was CFO and Head of Finance of ATC Ghana and Finance Director, Eskom Uganda Limited. She has also worked for Standard Chartered Bank as Financial Controller, Shell U Ltd as Compliance Manager, Corporate Treasurer and Financial Controller, British American Tobacco as Area Auditor for Eastern Africa, and as an Internal Auditor at National Social Security Fund & National Water and Sewerage Corporation. 
 
Mrs. Ossiya holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Accounting) from Makerere University and a Masters of Business administration specialising in International Business from the University of Liverpool. 

She is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU) and the current President of council of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda, a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants UK (ACCA), and a founder Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors Uganda. Since 2018, she has been a member of the board of Bank of Uganda, serving as the Chairperson of the Strategy Finance Committee of the Board and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the BoU Staff Retirement Defined Benefits Scheme. She is also Chairperson of the audit committee at Busitema University. 

She is partner in Rona & Partners (an accounting & audit services firm). She is an entrepreneur, farmer and owner of Mychere Ltd a company involved in Agro-processing (growing rice & Turmeric, processing and packaging). 

With her husband Solomon Ossiya , a lawyer and advocate, she has three daughters. 

Lisa Kelley joined IFAC’s Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Advisory Group in January 2024. She was nominated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). 

Ms. Kelley is Managing Director of Floating Interest Corporation where she provides business consulting and fractional CFO services. Previously, Lisa was the VP of Global Logistics at Avnet, Inc. (AVT), a Fortune 500 company that markets, distributes and adds value to a wide variety of electronics components, enterprise computer products and embedded subsystems with over $20 billion in revenue operating in 100+ countries. Lisa joined Avnet as the Chief Audit Executive leading risk management strategy and establishing global audit practice in trade compliance, anti-corruption and data privacy/cyber-security. Prior to joining Avnet in 2014, Lisa was in several senior leadership roles at Asurion, a global leader in technology protection services with over $6 billion in revenue. During Lisa’s nine years with Asurion she primarily served as the Group CFO for Asurion Global Supply Chain, Customer Care & Program Management. Before joining Asurion, Lisa was the Chief Accounting Officer for Brightpoint, a publicly traded company, which was acquired by Ingram Micro in 2012. Brightpoint was a $1.9 billion distribution and logistics services company supporting the global wireless telecommunications and data industry. From 1992 through 2003, Lisa had varied roles with Plexus Corp., a publicly traded global electronics contract manufacturer. Roles included Vice-President of Corporate Development, Vice-President of Finance, Corporate Controller and Treasurer. 

Lisa has six years of public accounting experience, is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant with an MBA from the University of Wisconsin. Lisa currently serves on an IPO company board and two private company boards. Lisa has served on a publicly traded board that went private and a not-for-profit board. She is active within her profession as she has served on various executive committees for the AICPA, AACSB Accounting Accreditation committee, past-chair of the Financial Executives International - Nashville chapter, and a past-member of the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Mr. David Wray became a member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants in January 2024.

Mr. Wray most recently worked as a Senior Director of Accounting & Reporting at Huawei Global Finance. He previously held several finance executive roles in the technology industry.Mr. Wray serves as a Board Member for the International CFO Alliance (ICFOA) as well as its Chair of ESG. He also serves as the President for the DFCG's International Group and is an Executive Member of the DFCG National Board. He holds technical advisory roles with various organizations in the US, UK, and South Africa.

Mr. Wray is the author of The Power of Potential and has published several articles on finance transformation, data management, the future of finance, and sustainability.

Mr. Wray earned an MBA in 2008 from Athabasca University (Canada) and is a member of ICAEW (UK) and CPA Ontario (Canada).