Rakesh is a Director with the Corporate tax practice of Crowe UAE. Rakesh is a Chartered Accountant with more than 10 years of experience in corporate tax, International Tax and Transaction Tax matters catering to a number of industry verticals.

Zayd Maniar is an International Liaison Partner with Crowe UAE and part of the UAE Management Team. Zayd Maniar is a Chartered Accountant and has almost 20 years’ experience in providing Audit and Assurance services in the UK and UAE.

Ms. Jasbine Heenaye is an established professional in the Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting Terrorist Financing world. She has actively contributed at national and international levels for Mauritius in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. She also participated in the first National Risk Assessment in Money Laundering and Terrorist Finance for Mauritius, along with participating in the ESAAMLG Mauritius re-rating application exercise post MER, ESAAMLG Council of Ministers and was part of the Mauritian delegation at FATF Joint Group Committee meetings to discuss and demonstrate the effective actions taken by Mauritius to effectively combat ML and TF. She has a Bachelor of Law (LL.B) Hons and is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and is currently the AML/CFT Manager at the Mauritius Institute of Professional Accountants. She is the Team Leader of the Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBP) vulnerability team for the drafting of the second National Risk Assessment Report (NRA) being conducted in Mauritius this year.

Ms. Tsakani Maluleke is South Africa’s auditor-general, the first woman to hold this position in the supreme audit institution’s 109-year history. She was also the first female deputy auditor-general.

Her background as a Chartered Accountant spans more than 20 years, with experience in both the private and public sectors, and in areas as diverse as auditing, consulting, corporate advisory, development finance, investment management and skills development agencies.

Tsakani served on the Presidential Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Advisory Council, where she successfully led a subcommittee that developed recommendations for broad-based black economic empowerment. As chairperson of the CA Charter Council, she led the first BEE sector charter, which focused on key transformation initiatives that improved access for black people to enter the profession. As a nonexecutive member of the Financial Advisory & Intermediary Services (FAIS) Ombud committee, she advised the setting up of the FAIS Ombud office.

Tsakani’s career is motivated by a passion to actively contribute to advancing black men and women in the accountancy profession. She has pursued this passion through her work with various organizations including Business Unity South Africa, African Women Chartered Accountants, and the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of Southern Africa (Abasa), of which she is a past president.

Her role as the former South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) nonexecutive chairperson of the board, is a continuation of this work.

Her commitment to service excellence and ethical leadership, and her contribution to transformation has been recognized and awarded by the Presidents of ABASA, AWCA and Black Management Forum (BMF).

Tsakani is a fellow and moderator of the African Leadership Initiative and the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

The IAASB is working on a narrow scope maintenance of standards project on listed entity and PIE that addresses the IAASB’s actions in respect of recent revisions to the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants’ International Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (including International Independence Standards) (IESBA Code) as a result of IESBA’s project on the definitions of listed entity and PIE.

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Vicky Rock is the Managing Director Finance, Performance and Portfolio for the UK House of Commons .Prior to this, she held a number of roles at HM Treasury, most recently as Director of Public Spending  

She has also served as Deputy Head of the Government Finance Function, which focuses on investing in people, sharing best practice and developing frameworks, guidance and tools to support more than 10,000 people working in finance across government. 

Vicky began her career working mainly on public sector audit at KPMG, where she trained and gained her CIPFA qualification in 2009. She moved to the Treasury in 2011, initially working in an accounting role before moving into public spending, and then from the finance team into the public spending group, working on setting financial reporting rules for the government and providing advice on financial management. 

In 2014, she began a short secondment to help set up the British Business Bank before returning to the Treasury in July 2015 as a deputy director, overseeing all aspects of government financial reporting and the whole of government accounts. After four years in this position, she was appointed as Director, Public Spending Group, which involved leading the teams responsible for delivering high-quality government financial reporting and data in order to improve decision making and accountability across government.