Mrs Wydell is currently General Manager Professional Standards at Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) where she and her teams work to assist CA ANZ members by communicating, educating, helping, reviewing and, if necessary, disciplining members in relation to professional and ethical standards and behaviour.  Mrs Wydell is also responsible for forming policy positions on proposed ethical and professional standards and liaising with Australian regulators on issues relevant to the Accounting profession.  She engages with the Australian Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board on CA ANZ's behalf.

Mrs Wydell’s prior work experience was with two international network firms predominantly in the audit area of practice.  Mrs Wydell was previously a member of the Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and is currently a director and chair of the Audit, Risk and Finance Committee for a large independent girl’s school.

Mrs Wydell has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and has been a member of CA ANZ for 25 years. 

Sundeep Takwani is ACCA’s Director of Regulation and is responsible for ethical and regulatory matters, including public practice and audit registration. Mr Takwani oversees ACCA’s regulatory responsibilities and its relationships with regulators, and also is responsible for servicing ACCA’s governance and public interest oversight arrangements for regulation and discipline. Additionally, Mr Takwani manages the updating of ACCA of the ACCA Rulebook; including ACCA’s Code of Ethics and Conduct, and represents ACCA on profession-wide ethics and regulatory forums.

Mr Takwani is a FCCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and a member of Chartered Accountants Australia, and, New Zealand and The Chartered Institute of Taxation. Mr Takwani holds a BA (Hons) in Economics.

Greg Bedard became a member of the IFAC Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Advisory Group in January 2018. He was nominated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

Mr. Bedard is Vice President and Chief of Staff at Prudential Financial. Prior to this, Mr. Bedard was the VP of Internal Audit at Prudential where he had oversight repsonsibility for the strategy and execution of the internal audit program for financial management functions of the company. Mr. Bedard was also VP, Controller and Head of FP&A for the corporate segment and held previous financial mangement roles with progressive responsibility. 

Mr. Bedard has served in various volunteer leadership roles with the AICPA, including as a member of the AICPA's Governing Council, Assurance Services Executive Commmittee and Business and Industry Executive Committee. He is a chairperson of the annual AICPA Controllers Conference.

Mr. Bedard holds a Master of Philosophy in Economics from Oxford University. He earned an MBA in Accounting and Finance and Bachelor of Arts in Economics/Mathematics from Rutgers University. Mr. Bedard is a Certified Public Accountants (CPA) and a Certified Global Management Accountants (CGMA).

International standards for auditing and ethics play a critical role in the global financial infrastructure, assisting in promoting economic stability and international consistency, and in doing so, enhancing international financial and capital flows essential to a thriving global economy. This is especially important for emerging economies.

The IPSASB adopted an open and inclusive process throughout the development of the 2019-2023 Strategy and Work Plan. This included discussions and dialogue with different stakeholder groups including: (a) National standard setters (through the Public Sector Standard Setters Forum); (b) Jurisdictions using IPSAS or in the process of adopting and implementing IPSAS; and (c) The IPSASB Consultative Advisory Group (CAG) and the Public Interest Committee (PIC).