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. 

Sharon Machado is the head of sustainable business within ACCA’s Policy and Insights team.  Sharon and her team generate future looking thought leadership research and influence policy relating to the technical domains of sustainable finance, skills development, ethics, corporate reporting, tax, business law, audit and assurance.  This work has the aim of driving better business through the role of professional accountants, and in this work, Sharon takes a holistic view to how the domains connect to underpin sustainable business, the skills and action required. Education enabling the conversion of technical knowledge into action is vital, and Sharon regularly incorporates this into her own work.  Her passion for education was gained from preparing students for the technical and professional demands of accountancy qualifications, which she did prior to joining ACCA in 2008.  Since joining ACCA, her roles have also included shaping the ACCA Qualification and its digital transformation, an area to which she continues to input.

Vita is Manager, Head of Sustainability, at Accountancy Europe, where she leads sustainability policy work. Vita has been focusing on sustainability and sustainable finance-related matters since 2015. In this role, she continues specialising in monitoring, analysing and influencing as well as representing the accountancy profession’s views on sustainability towards the EU’s sustainability policy decision making. Vita obtained certification in sustainable finance and studied public administration and general management. 

Pamela Monroe Ellis was appointed Auditor General in 2008 and is responsible for the effective management of the Government of Jamaica’s financial management systems, as well as complying with financial management policies. She spent the early part of her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Staff Accountant. As Jamaica’s Auditor General, she is also Secretary General of the Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (CAROSAI), and a member of the International Association of Supreme Audit Institutions’ (INTOSAI), a working group of the Value and Benefit of Supreme Audit Institutions. Pamela served as Chair of the Investigation Committee of ICAJ, Director of the Board of the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI), and Chair of the steering committee of the International Financial Reporting for Non-Profit Organizations (IFR4NPO). She is currently Commissioner of the Integrity Commission of Jamaica.