Fiona Campbell became Chair of the Forum of Firms in July 2025. She is a Partner at EY’s Melbourne Assurance practice, with more than thirty years’ experience as an audit practitioner. She is deeply embedded in audit methodology and standard setting and has worked with a range of clients across telecommunications, retail and consumer products, distribution, biotechnology and not for profit organisations. This experience includes large publicly traded companies as well as large privately owned multinationals. She has project managed audit teams and engagements across Australia, Asia Pacific and global organisations.

Fiona was a Board Member on the International Auditing & Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) for six years, spending her term’s last four years as a member of the IAASB Steering committee and her last two years as the Deputy Chair of the Board. She has been a member of various not for profit boards and audit committees over the last 15 years, and has co-authored a university textbook which provides a relevant and practical approach to auditing, used by nearly all major universities in Australia.

Fiona is deeply committed to the Forum of Firms’ public interest mission of promoting consistent, high-quality audit practices across borders to enhance trust in financial reporting and serve the global capital markets.

Amy has a passion for helping people learn and interact with new ideas and content, rooted in more than a decade of classroom instructional experience and 15 additional years of work with software development, training, and consulting.

Her expertise in curriculum design, adult learning, and assessment for the improvement of teaching and learning was sharpened in real-world practice, and now allows Amy to lead the evolution of the next phase of educational offerings CPA.com will bring to market. She is eager to help CPA.com continue to expand their recognition as a provider of high-quality, best practice education for firm enablement and business development.

Amy holds a B.S. Mathematics with a minor in Math Education from Purdue University and an M.A. Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Indianapolis.

Faris AlSaadi became the technical advisor for Abdullah Al-Mehthil in May 2025. He was nominated by Saudi Ministry of Finance with the support of National Standards Committee.

Mr. AlSaadi is the general manager of Financial Reporting and Statistics since March 2023 at the Ministry of Finance, Saudi Arabia. Faris oversees preparation, review, and publication of the Kingdom’s central government consolidated financial statements. He drives – along with other teams - enhancements to reporting frameworks, ensuring compliance with IPSAS convergence efforts, and suggesting policy formulation for standalone financial statements across governmental entities. In addition to the aforementioned, he manages Saudi Arabia’s unified chart of accounts as well as designs and implements process controls to improve data integrity, timeliness, and transparency of fiscal statistics.

Mr. AlSaadi holds a master's degree in accounting and Information Systems and a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Southern Illinois University. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the US and Certified Public Accountant in Saudi Arabia.

Elena Botvina is Economic Affairs Officer at the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Her work revolves around shaping policy frameworks and building capacities for sustainable finance as well as sustainability and SDG reporting, focusing on coordinating intergovernmental dialogue, conducting analytical studies, expanding technical cooperation and promoting capacity-building tools.

Iwona Warzecha is a Senior Financial Management Specialist at the World Bank with extensive experience in public and private sector accounting and auditing. She has led and contributed to many technical assistance projects, lending investment operations, and knowledge papers related to corporate financial reporting and auditing, and public financial management.

Miriam Koreen is the Senior Counsellor on SMEs and Head of the SME and Entrepreneurship Finance Unit at the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities of the Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD). She leads the OECD Platform on Financing SMEs for Sustainability and the OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Financing Scoreboard.

In several major jurisdictions, we are witnessing a pushback against regulation. Competitiveness has risen to the top of political agendas, driving calls for simplification, reduced oversight, and lighter regulation, against a backdrop of growing geopolitical tensions.

IFAC Connect^TM brings together professional bodies, professional services firms, standard setters, regulators and the business and investor communities to drive high quality and decision-useful corporate reporting, governance and business practices to respond to new risks and opportunities.

Participation is by invitation only. More details TBA.

IFAC Connect^TM brings together professional bodies, professional services firms, standard setters, regulators and the business and investor communities to drive high quality and decision-useful corporate reporting, governance and business practices to respond to new risks and opportunities.

Participation is by invitation-only. More details TBA.