Mr. Abdullah Al-Mehthil became a member of the International Public sector Accounting Standards Board in January 2022, nominated by Ministry of Finance, Saudi Arabia. Mr. Abdullah Al-Mehthil is an Assistant Undersecretary - Deputyship of Accounts & Finance in the Ministry of Finance; he is heading the country's Cash to Accrual program.

Mr. Al-Mehthil has more than 20 years of in-depth experience across the public and private sectors in the areas of financial planning, risk management, corporate governance, digital transformation, and accounting & control. Prior to joining the Ministry, Mr. Al-Mehthil worked for leading conglomerates in Oil & Gas and automotive industries. Mr. Al-Mehthil sits on the Boards and Audit Committees of leading companies in KSA.

Mr. Al-Mehthil holds a master's degree in accounting and Information Systems and a bachelor's degree in accounting & Business Administration from the University Of Kansas. In addition to completing a Leadership program in Insead Business School, Mr. Al-Mehthil is a Certified Public Accountant in the US & Certified Public Accountant in Saudi Arabia.

Liang Yang was a member of the IPSASB until 2024. Ms. Yang s a technical partner at Deloitte China, with over 25 years of auditing and professional advisory experience with international accounting firms serving public and private sector entities in China and beyond. Ms. Yang served as a member of the Government Accounting Standards Board of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) of China from 2016 to 2019 and is a member of the Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises Advisory Committee of the MoF of China from 2016 to 2023.

Since 2022, Ms. Yang has served on the IPSASB, supported by the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA).

Ms. Yang graduated from Fudan University with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and earned a Master's degree in Science in Professional Accountancy at the University of London. Ms. Yang is a senior member of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA), and a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Her Technical Advisor is Qiang Zhang.

Dr. Maik Esser-Müllenbach was appointed as a member of IPSASB from January 2022. He was nominated by the Bundesrechnungshof, the German Supreme Audit Institution (SAI). Dr. Esser-Müllenbach is the German SAI's team leader in charge of international auditing and accounting standards and external audit mandates. He represents the German SAI in the Financial Audit and Accounting Subcommittee (FAAS) of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI). Dr. Esser-Müllenbach coordinated and monitored audit work performed within the German SAI's membership on the United Nations Board of Auditors from 2016 to 2022. The German SAI's portfolio included various United Nations organizations and agencies.

He has more than 20 years of experience in the public sector. He started his career as an academic researcher at the Ruhr University Bochum. Subsequently he worked for the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority and then joined the German SAI in 2011. Before moving to the international relations unit, he was an audit manager in the areas of national debt management and financial market stabilization including winding-up agencies. On the European level, he carried out audit work in the context of the European debt crisis. Dr. Esser-Müllenbach holds a Master's degree in economics. He was awarded a PhD for a thesis on international accounting for business combinations in 2004.

His Technical Advisor is Timm Klare.

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Financial Accounting in the Circular Economy: Redefining Value, Impact, and Risk to Accelerate the Circular Transition—Launch of the new paper by the Coalition Circular Accounting

This event is hosted in collaboration with the NBA (Koninklijke Nederlandse Beroepsorganisatie van Accountants—The Royal Netherlands Institute of Chartered Accountants), with support from sponsor Invest-NL