ICGFM - Key Persons
Alejandro Chiappe is Partner in charge of the Advisory Services (AS) and Public Sector departments at Grant Thornton Argentina since 2003. A Certified Public Accountant and a Business Administrator, from Universidad de Buenos Aires, he has more than 28 years of experience in accounting, auditing and advisory services. He also got CISA and CRISC certifications. He is also member of the Public Sector Strategic Group and Global Advisory Committee of Grant Thornton International leading the Latin America region.
Alejandro has lectured and conducted research related to auditing, management, accounting, internal controls evaluations and BPI in both public and private sectors. He has lectured on SOX implications and also has led teams performing reviews under SOX or related environments.
Alejandro is a former Audit Professor at Universidad de Palermo. He is also Member of the Argentine Professional Council, former Member of the committee for the normalization of accounting standards for the Mercosur and former Accounting Professor at Universidad de El Salvador.
Before joining Grant Thornton Argentina in 2001, Alejandro worked for 20 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the areas of Audit and Advisory, serving Multilateral Funding Agencies and Multinational companies with headquarters in the US, Canada and Europe.
Job Titles:
- Group Vice President
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Program Committee
- Organizational Member Representatives
- Program Committee / Chair
Aleksi Aleksishvili has 20 years of experience working in the public finance and economic development policy sector as a high-level government official and government adviser. Having served as Minister of Economic Development (2004-2005) and Minister of Finance of Georgia (2005-2007), he is one of the leading architects of Georgia's crucial reforms in economic policy, fiscal, budget, and financial, tax and customs policy reform, business climate improvement and doing business in that environment. Mr. Aleksishvili has accumulated exceptional knowledge of development challenges. As the Chairman of the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development (UN CSD) (2005-2006), he dealt with issues related to energy, climate change, air pollution and industrial development, work which was acknowledged as being successful by the Commission and UN General Assembly. Mr. Aleksishvili is a member of the Caucasus and Central Asia Advisory Group (CCAG) of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Middle East and Central Asia Department (MCD). He has advised numerous governments of countries such as Albania, Mongolia, Kosovo, Mozambique, Iraq, Moldova, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan on how to enhance their public finance management and business enabling environments, by providing valuable assistance and conveying his specialized experience of a transitional country.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya
Awinja Wameyo is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya and holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom and a bachelor's degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She is a seasoned development finance expert with more than 30 years' experience, whose focus has been on the transformation of functions and integrating governance & risk management into development solutions. She has worked at Senior Positions at The African Development Bank - Africa's premier Multilateral Development Bank (based in Tunisia & Cote D'Ivoire) and currently at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (in Switzerland). In her substantive roles and as a member of various committees, her roles have transcended influencing policy, leading change initiatives and process improvement. Throughout her career, she has led different initiatives to reform and influence service delivery for the benefit of served member states.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Managing Director of the Financial Management
- Managing Director, Financial Management and Assurance, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Berri Davis is the Managing Director of the Financial Management and Assurance (FMA) team within the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Along with its annual financial statement audits of the SEC, FDIC, and a number of other federal agencies and entities, the team audits the Consolidated Financial Statements of the U.S. Government. FMA's performance audits cover DOD financial management issues, DATA Act implementation, and payment integrity for the pandemic funding. FMA is also responsible for the development of Government Auditing Standards and Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government. Berri serves as GAO's representative in addressing standard setting processes and activities of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI). These roles include participation in the Professional Standards Committee Steering Committee and membership in the Forum for INTOSAI Professional Pronouncements.
Before working in the federal government, Berri served as Vice President, Standards and Guidance, for the Institute of Internal Auditors. Here she directed activities related to the identification of emerging issues and the development of international guidance. Berri also served as Director of Audit Services and Management Support for the City of Orlando. Her accomplishments there include generating millions of dollars of additional revenue for the city, coordinating the development of the city's first comprehensive strategic plan, and creating a citywide employee recognition program. In addition, Berri has several years of work experience in public accounting and the private sector, including service as CFO of the Orlando Museum of Art.
Berri has served as a member of several auditing and financial management councils and boards, including the Comptroller General's Government Auditing Standards Advisory Council, the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board Appointments Panel, and the American Institute of CPA's governing council. She is a Past President of the Florida Government Finance Officers Association, a Past President of the Florida Institute of CPAs and a former Chairman of the Florida Board of Accountancy.
Berri graduated with a Master's in Business Administration - Accounting from the University of Florida and earned her Bachelor's degree in Economics from Emory University. She holds the designations of CPA, CIA, CGFM, CGAP, CGMA, and CCSA.
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- Executive Director for Williams Adley & Company
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Senior Director With General Dynamics Information Technology
- Senior Director, General Dynamics Information Technology ( GDIT )
David Pearl is a Senior Director with General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a fortune 500 company and the fourth largest company providing services to the US government. Mr. Pearl leads GDIT's technology support to the US State Department Bureau for Information and Resource Management. His teams support State by providing technology and cyber security services to over 100,000 endpoints across the world.
Prior to his current role with GDIT, Mr. Pearl spent more than 30 years in support of international organizations where he led or was a senior member of the practice for Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, and Grant Thornton. Mr. Pearl holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance from Virginia Tech, a Master's in Business Administration with a dual concentration in Finance and Information Technology Management from The George Washington University, and a Masters in Cyber Engineering with highest distinction from the University of Maryland Global Campus.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice President, Communications
- Chief Financial Officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development
- Senior Policy Advisor to CFO, U.S. Agency for International Development, USA
Dorothea Malloy is the Senior Policy Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development. She supports the CFO representing USAID to the donor committees of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions and the International Federation of Accountants. Also, she represents USAID in the Practitioner Advisory and Donor Reference Groups of the International Financial Reporting for Non-Profit Organizations project which is an initiative to develop the world's first internationally applicable financial reporting guidance for non-profit organizations. She holds an active license as a U.S. Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), and U.K. Chartered Public Finance Accountant (CPFA). She has prior experience as a practicing CPA and tax practitioner, University Associate Professor, and Federal Government service at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Dr. Carmela S. Perez has been participating in the annual and winter conferences of the International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management (ICGFM) either as delegate or Resource Speaker. She attended the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 winter and Miami conferences. In 2006 she presented a paper on Implementing the Computerized New Government Accounting System: Philippine Experience and in 2019, the paper on Citizen Participation Audit. In 2005, she was the representative of the Philippine Commission on Audit as institutional member of the ICGFM. In 2016, she was awarded by the ICGFM for her essay on the impact of the ICGFM in her life, for which she was accorded free registration to the Miami Conference of the same year. She has more than forty years of combined experiences in private and public sector financial management, Special Audit, Fraud Audit, Information Technology Management and audit of United Nation Agencies and Foreign Based Government Agencies. Her experiences include standard setting, policy formulation and development and government accountancy. She was Member of the Philippine Public Sector Accounting Standards Board and the Philippine Financial Reporting Standards Council. She worked as Chief Financial Officer/Assistant Commissioner, Planning Finance and Management Sector, Commission on Audit and as Vice President for Finance, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP). Her expertise also includes Information and Communications Technology Project Management, implementation and training management for the World Bank Funded Philippine Tax Computerization Project for the Philippine Bureau of Customs. She also managed and supervised the implementation of the Electronic New Government Accounting System in government agencies by the Philippine Commission on Audit. She was also a College Dean and Department Chairperson at the College of Computer Management and Information Technology at the PUP. Carmela S. Perez has a Doctor of Business Administration degree and a Certified Public Accountant. She is a Professorial Lecturer at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Graduate School and at the University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance. She is currently the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Government Financial Management Innovators Circle, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Philippine State Universities and Colleges Computer Education and Systems Society and President and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Almost Family Foundation Incorporated.
Tetiana Iefymenko - President of the State educational and scientific institution"Academy of Financial Management", Full Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor. She occupied the posts of Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Chairman of the Zaporizhia State Tax Administration, and also managed others structural divisions of local authorities.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Senior Advisor
- Director of World Bank Group 's Governance Global Practice Responsible for Africa, Middle East and North Africa, and Europe and Central Asia Regions / Member Login
- Senior Advisor, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions ( EFI ), the World Bank Group
Ed Olowo-Okere is the Senior Advisor, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions (EFI), The World Bank Group. A Nigerian, Ed has three decades of experience working on governance issues around the world. Previously, he led the World Bank's Governance Global Practice, which focuses on helping countries build capable, effective, accountable, transparent, and inclusive institutions that deliver citizen-centric services, facilitate private-sector growth, and improve trust in Government. The Global Practice provides expertise on governance issues, ranging from public financial management, public procurement, public investment governance, public institutions reform, decentralization/subnational governance to anti-corruption policies, fiduciary assurance, political economy analysis and GovTech (i.e. leveraging technology to modernize the public sector to improve service delivery to citizens and businesses, and increase efficiency, transparency and accountability).
He joined the World Bank in 1998 and has held various positions in operations, including Director of Governance overseeing Africa, MENA and ECA regions, Senior Advisor in the Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions practice group, and Director of the Core Operational Services Department in the Africa region. Before joining the Bank, Ed held public and private sector positions.
He has researched and published in reputable international journals and lectured at undergraduate and graduate levels in Nigeria and New Zealand on accounting and finance.
Ed was recognized as a Governance Pioneer in 2021 by the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Agile Governance among the world's 50 most influential people.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Member of the Communications Committee
- Principal
- Principal Associate, Economic Policy and Governance / Nathan, Inc.
Eric Uggen is a Principal Associate in Nathan's Economic Policy and Governance practice with over 20 years of experience supporting and directing public financial management (PFM) initiatives. His focus has been strengthening a range of budget development and public expenditure management functions, including program and performance budgeting, commitment control and payment processing, and financial management information systems.
Before joining Nathan, he was a Senior Manager in Deloitte's Government and Public Services practice serving clients in the International Development Organizations (IDO) business where he led USAID, World Bank, and IDB funded projects as a Chief of Party, Technical Advisor, or home office Project Manager on multi-million dollar projects in Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East, and Africa, including several projects in post-conflict zones.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Finance Committee
- Treasurer of the Executive Committee
- Managing Director at Ernst and Young
Geoff Luiz is a Managing Director at Ernst and Young (EY) in their Government & Public Sector Consulting Practice, and is focused on Enterprise Risk Management. Mr. Luiz has over 17 years of public accounting experience, including business consulting, financial statement audits, performance audits, and various types of risk assessments. He has focused his career primarily on US Federal government clients and has also served non-governmental organizations, state and local governments, as well as commercial entities. Mr. Luiz has a degree in accounting as well as a degree in general business with an international concentration, both from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) as well as a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- President and CEO, VP of Training and Program Management at Graduate School USA
Jack Maykoski serves as the President and CEO, VP of Training and Program Management at Graduate School USA. With over 25 years in professional development and international education (including 12 years working and living abroad in the development field), Mr. Maykoski has extensive experience leading results-oriented public administration capacity building programs and providing technical assistance in many regions of the world. At Graduate School USA, he is responsible for organizational leadership in the areas of public sector education and training, customized learning and human capital solutions, and institutional representation to clients.
Prior to his career with Graduate School USA, Mr. Maykoski worked for the Peace Corps in several capacities, including Country Director for three countries, Chief of Operations in Washington, DC, training consultant and volunteer in the area of youth development.
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- Managing Director, Deloitte
Jimmy Rollins leads Deloitte's Inclusive Economic Growth Practice as Managing Director, with over 15 years of experience in government performance management and public financial management. He has advised and led programs in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean with a particular focus on budget reform, internal controls, and performance management systems for USAID, World Bank and IMF-funded efforts. He currently supports programs in Sri Lanka on COVID-19 and economic crisis recover, Senegal on budget and transparency reforms, Ukraine on safeguarding US Government direct support, and Serbia on improving public procurement processes and oversight.
He has also worked with domestic U.S. agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local governments including Oklahoma, Missouri and City of Houston on budget reform and public-facing platforms to publish budget and performance data. Prior to joining Deloitte, Jimmy worked with the World Bank, U.S. Treasury, and Peace Corps. He holds a MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and is certified in PEFA methodologies.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
Joanne Dunne has over 35 years of leadership and management experience as an association executive with a successful record of leading and transforming organizations through innovation, creativity, and collaboration.
Joanne serves as the Managing Director for ICGFM and is the owner and President of The Lyons Consulting Group, LLC established in 2005. She has demonstrated expertise in management, governance, finance, communications and education and conferences.
She is a member of the American Society of Association Executives and a founding member of the ASAE Consultants Section Council, now a Key Committee. She is also a charter member of the Washington, DC Nonprofit CEO Council. Joanne is a member of the University Club of Washington, DC and serves as Assistant Treasurer on the Board of Governors.
She speaks frequently at conferences and seminars, and facilitates strategic planning sessions, board retreats and marketing strategy sessions for organization boards of directors and staff.
Joanne attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY and has a BA in English literature. She lives in Arlington, VA and has two grown children.
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- Practice Group Lead & Senior Director for the Program Financial Services Division, Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC )
John Hanley serves as Practice Group Lead & Senior Director for the Program Financial Services division at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). John joined MCC in 2006 and had the honor in early 2024 of joining the wider MCC community in celebrating its 20 th anniversary.
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- Director of Professional Development Services at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Rwanda
Kalisa is a Director of Professional Development Services at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Rwanda (ICPAR) since 2017. Among his other duties, he is also responsible for promoting the development and adoption of professional accounting standards in Rwanda, as well as leading the development of effective partnerships with key stakeholders in line with the ICPAR's strategy including facilitating the meeting of IFAC's Statement of Membership Obligations (SMOs). Prior to that, Kalisa served in different capacities as a Managing Director of Legitimate Consult Ltd a Rwandan consultancy firm that specialized in provision of management consultancies.
Before joining Legitimate Consult Ltd, Kalisa also served as the General Manager of the College of Business Studies (CBS) where he was tasked with representing the institute in its main strategic decisions and collaborating with all the college stakeholders to deliver tuition to students undertaking professional qualification. Kalisa was also part of the lecturing team at the college in providing both CAT and ACCA classes.
Kalisa possesses extensive experience in both public and private sector, and he is very passionate about contributing to societal needs, whilst leveraging towards a positive sustainable impact. Kalisa is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Public Accountants (FCCA) and a member of CPA, Rwanda. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Southwales - United Kingdom, and he is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Professional Accountancy at the University of London. Other Licenses and Certifications include Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT) certificate as TADAT trained issued in 2019 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF, TADAT Secretariat); Approved Trainer of Corporate Governance issued by the International Finance Corporation (IFC); and a Certificate in International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) issued by ACCA.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Secretary of the Executive Committee
- Manager in Deloitte 's Inclusive Economic Growth Practice
- Manager, Economic Growth Practice, Deloitte
Katherine Grau-Zavaleta is a Manager in Deloitte's Inclusive Economic Growth Practice with over 10 years of experience in government performance management and public financial management. She has designed, implemented, and advised on programs across Latin America and the Caribbean, North Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Eurasia, and Sub-Saharan Africa focusing on budget reform, procurement reform, revenue mobilization, and performance management for USAID, World Bank and IDB-funded projects. Currently, she advises on a program in Ukraine on safeguarding US Government direct support and in Sub-Saharan Africa strengthening financial and program management capacity for G2G implementation.
She has also worked with domestic U.S. agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Library of Congress, and the Census Bureau on improving grants management, cost estimation, cost accounting, enterprise planning and management, financial systems design and implementation, and development and use of performance data in operations. Prior to joining Deloitte, Katherine worked with the World Bank in Guatemala and Washington, DC, and Peace Corps. She holds a MA in International Relations and Economics from SAIS Johns Hopkins.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- President of the Executive Committee
- President, ICGFM President & CEO, Swale House Partners
Laura Robinson, CPA, MPA, CFE, is the President of Swale House Partners Inc., providing bespoke risk management services to government clients worldwide. Mrs. Robinson has a passion for accounting for uncertainty and providing relevant, reliable, timely information to government decision makers as they navigate disruption and build resilience. She has worked with government entities on five continents to promote efficiency in converting government resources into public value. Mrs. Robinson leads the SHP knowledge partner initiative to promote innovation and the implementation of risk management practices in the global public sector. Prior to Swale House Partners, she served as a senior civil servant with the U.S. Government after starting her career as an auditor at Deloitte. Mrs. Robinson is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and Certified in Business Continuity Management. She holds an International Diploma in Risk Management from the Institute of Risk Management, an Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Southern California.
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- Advisor With the U.S. Treasury Office of Technical Assistance
Lori Fleming has been an advisor with the U.S. Treasury Office of Technical Assistance since 2011. She has provided technical assistance to the governments of developing countries on issues related to IPSAS implementation, improving budget formulation and establishing financial controls. As a resident advisor in Honduras for 8 years, Lori worked on projects on IPSAS implementation and provided technical assistance in cooperation with the Millennium Challenge Corporation on a Threshold Program to reinstate the eligibility of Honduras for compact agreements. She is currently working with the governments of Honduras and Madagascar as an intermittent advisor.
Prior to joining the Office of Technical Assistance, Lori was the Finance Director in Columbia Missouri and Peoria Illinois. Lori has a master's degree in accounting, has passed the CPA exam and was the 22 nd person to become a Certified Public Financial Officer with the Government Financial Officer's Association in the United States.
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- Director, Compliance Standards and Risk for the Strategic Planning
- Sustaining Basic Member Representatives
As Director, Compliance Standards and Risk for the Strategic Planning and External Liaison office within GAO, Michael leads and directs programs around standardization of operations; development of compliance and policies related to budget, financial management, human capital, compliance, internal control and performance reporting; and risk management activities for the range of complex business functions. He is also responsible for overall supervision of communications, protocol, passport, and security operations.
Michael has public and private sector experience in strategic planning, operations management and auditing, and holds both FAC-C and FAC-COR certifications. He has worked previously as Chief of Staff and senior advisor to the Chief Financial Officer of another federal agency, where he also held a Contracting Officer's warrant. Michael earned a B.A. in Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Master's Certificate in Government Contracting from the George Washington University.
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- Chief Executive Officer of IBI
Mr. David Wall, Chief Executive Officer of IBI, has more than 25 years of experience successfullymanaging day-to-day operations, setting strategic goals, change management, supervising and motivating staff, and developing and implementing policies and procedures.
Mr. Wall's extensive global experience includes technical advisory and project management for USAID, the World Bank, and Asian Development Bank. He has proven experience collaborating with executives, stakeholders, and multinational teams in both the private and public sectors
Prior to joining IBI, Mr. Wall served as a respected leader and strategist with such firms as AECOM, Deloitte Consulting, KPMG and The Nasdaq Stock Market. He has a proven record in senior line management and boardroom strategic consulting combined with a global background in financial services industry throughout the Middle East, America's, Europe and the Pacific Rim.
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- 21st Auditor
- Auditor - General of Pakistan
- Secretary - General of the Economic Cooperation Organization
Mr. Muhammad Ajmal Gondal is the 21st Auditor-General of Pakistan / Supreme Audit Institution of Pakistan. The President of Pakistan appointed Mr. Gondal on 14 September 2021 for a four-year term under Article 168 of Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The Honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan swore him in.
The present Auditor-General possesses 35 years of domestic and international experience in public sector auditing and accounting. Before his elevation as the Auditor General, Mr. Gondal has held important positions within the Government, including Controller General of Accounts, Member Finance Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), and Accountant General of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Also, he has served as Director-General Audit of Federal Government and served as head of the Internal Audit Wing of the National Highways Authority (NHA).
Mr. Gondal is the Secretary-General of the Economic Cooperation Organization Supreme Audit Institutions (ECOSAI) - a sub-regional forum of eleven South and Central Asian countries' Supreme Audit Institutions. He also sits on the Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) Accounting Standards Board and Pakistan Institute of Public Financial Accountants (PIPFA), a fully accredited body of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC).
Mr. Gondal is driven by a desire to improve the efficiency and productivity of the external audit process, which includes technology-based risk assessment, trend analysis, and audit operations oversight. In this spirit, he is leading the implementation of the Audit Information Management Systems (AMIS) as part of a World Bank-funded program to strengthen public financial management and procurement systems, resulting in better management and accountability in service delivery. Since September 2021, the information system has been successfully implemented across 28 Field Audit offices.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice President of Training, International Development Group
- Vice President, Training
Ms. Sherry Khan has spent the past 21 years designing, managing, implementing, and evaluating donor-funded economic growth and governance programs in the developing world. Her expertise spans policy and institutional reform, small and medium enterprise development including gaining access to finance, procurement reform, and agriculture market development. She has helped private sector organizations analyze and advocate to their governments on financial sector reforms and policies to encourage domestic and foreign direct investment. Ms. Khan has managed programs or conducted assignments in 18 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Central Asia, and Southeastern Europe.
Prior to International Development, Ms. Khan provided strategy, change management, and process improvement consulting to U.S. Government agencies. She brings a consulting mindset of curiosity and commitment to continuous learning to all of her work.
Ms. Khan holds a MA in International Transactions from George Mason University and a BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Communications Committee
- Membership and Sponsorship Committee / Chair
- Practice Director, Public Finance Management, DT Global / ICGFM Vice President, Membership and Sponsorship
- Senior Principal and Practice Director at DT Global
Parag Shiswawala is a Global Senior Principal and Practice Director at DT Global, leading DT Global Public Finance Management unit for more than seven years. He has professional experience of over 30 years in public finance, financial advisory and fiduciary services. Today, DT Global is one of the leading providers of fiduciary services due to Parag's leadership of the PFM unit and the efforts of his team members. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant from India, and holds a Master's degree in Finance from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Mr. Shiswawala has rendered multi-disciplinary consulting services to small and medium-sized enterprises and multinationals in the private and public sector, and to government organizations, ministries, regulatory organizations, and donors such as USAID, Millennium Challenge Corporation Millennium Challenge Account entities, Global Fund, World Bank and FIRST Initiative. He has rendered value added services to different organizations across all the major sectors of an economy. He offers a unique combination of private and development consulting experiences, and has actively participated in accounting and audit reform initiatives. He has lived in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, and has experience in over 30 countries.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President - Elect
- Agency for International Development ( USAID ) Chief Financial Officer ( CFO )
Reginald W. Mitchell is the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and is responsible for the oversight of the accounting and financial reporting activities of the Agency. This includes the oversight and development of USAID worldwide financial management policies, program, and systems in support of the Agency's development activities. Mr. Mitchell provides financial management leadership by establishing clear set of policies and procedures to ensure the financial integrity of the Agency's programs. In carrying out his fiduciary duties, Mr. Mitchell directs the daily operations of the CFO organization and provides technical financial leadership for USAID's worldwide controller network and for Washington operating units in executing the Agency's approximately 9,000 employees and $25 billion-dollar financial portfolio.
Mr. Mitchell received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from National- Louis University and his Master of Public Administration from American University. He is a long-standing member of the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) and Senior Executive Association.
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- Partner Director, Consulting Plus, Panama
Temístocles (Temi) Rosas is currently Partner Director at Consulting Plus Firm, Director of Grupo Mundial, Director of the Panamanian Credit Association, Director of Grupo Inmobiliario Alfa and Director of Automobile Group.
He has held the public positions of Head of the Department of Auditing Standards in the Office of the Comptroller General, Vice Minister of Commerce and Industries, Director General at the Vocational Training Institute and Vice President of Administration and Finance of the Tocumen International Airport.
He is currently President of the Panamanian Executives Association, Vice President of SUMARSE, the Corporate Social Responsibility organization in Panama and Vice President of the Corporate Governance Institute of Panama.
Mr. Rosas graduated from the Universidad Santa María La Antigua with a degree in Finance and Banking. He holds a Master Degree in Business Administration from the Latin American University of Science and Technology, and a Master Degree in Compliance and Risk Management from ADEN Business School.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Senior Advisor
- Fmr Chief Financial Management Officer and Head of the Financial Management Sector Board of the World Bank
- Member of GAO 's Center for Audit Excellence Advisory Board
Tony Hegarty is the Fmr Chief Financial Management Officer and Head of the Financial Management Sector Board of the World Bank. Prior to retiring from the World Bank in November 2012, Tony was:
Co-Chair of the OECD-DAC Task Force on Public Financial Management;
Co-Chair of the INTOSAI-Donors Steering Committee;
Co-Chair of the IFAC-Donors Steering Committee (MOSAIC);
Founding Member of IFAC's Developing Nations Committee (now called the PAO Development Committee);
Chair of the Multilateral Development Banks Financial Management Working Group on Harmonization;
Alternating Chair/Member of the Multi-Donor Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Steering Committee; and
Member of the World Bank's Public Sector Governance Board.
Since retiring (2013-17), Tony has been a Senior Advisor on International Development. Strategic engagements include: United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and Pan African Federation of Accountants (PAFA).
Tony is also a current Member of GAO's Center for Audit Excellence Advisory Board (USA) and a regular speaker at international conferences on a range of topics in various parts of the world.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Director, Economic Policy & Governance Practice ( EP & G ), Cadmus Group ( Formerly Nathan Associates )
- Financial Sector Expert
- Vice President, Membership & Sponsorship
Uzma Ashraf Barton is a fiscal and financial sector expert with two decades of experience in economic analysis and governance, fiscal policy and administration, financial market development, and capacity building across Africa, South and East Asia, and Asia Pacific. Dr. Barton currently provides technical advice on domestic resource mobilization (DRM), public financial management (PFM), and home-office based oversight support at Cadmus's Economic Policy and Governance Practice.
In her previous assignments, Ms. Barton has worked extensively with national governments, high-level public officials, and international organizations on policy and academic issues. Before joining Cadmus Group, she advised the World Bank and the Government of Zambia on strategies to increase fiscal space. She conducted a pre-FSAP report evaluating weaknesses of the Indonesian legal and financial infrastructure for the World Bank. In another report for the Atlantic Council, she mapped Renminbi's rise and possible impact on the global and regional Asian market developments. For an Asian Development Bank's research-based project on regional integration, she co-authored the legal infrastructure for regional market development based on the Asian and European financial collapses. In a commissioned study for the Government of China, she advised on the risks of shadow-banking and financial inclusion and offered sustainable policy choices based on the lessons drawn from South Asian financial inclusion and microfinance models.
As practitioner in the public sector, Ms. Barton supported the World Bank-led Tax Administration Reform Project ($149 million) at the Federal Board of Revenue, Pakistan, and tracked the implementation progress of the IMF's structural adjustments program. On a Special Assignment, she supported the design and implementation of the Prime Minister's Governance Reform agenda across ten key ministries in Islamabad.
Ms. Barton's academic research is widely published. Her book ‘Rethinking Finance' (Kluwer, 2018) explores issues of systemic financial risks and suggests sustainable financing options. She is the co-editor of ‘Abraham and the Secular' (Palgrave, 2021). Ms. Barton has a PhD and an LLM in Finance Law.
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- Education Commissioner, ICPA Rwanda
Mr. Vincent Nkuranga currently is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds an MBA in Finance from Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands as well as a candidate of the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), with over 16 years as a versatile PFM Expert.
Currently Vincent chairs the newly created PEFA Advisory Board which helps enhance country ownership and provide suggestions, feedback, and advice to the PEFA Steering Committee (SC) on selected issues and approaches related to the PEFA Initiative.
He heads the Project Management Office for the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning as the SPIU Coordinator and is the vice chairperson of the IPSAS implementation team for Rwanda. The office leads key PFM Reforms programs that mainly focus on; automation of Government PFM systems through IFMIS, e-procurement and U-SAACOs. He has skills and knowledge in coordinating various development partner's cooperation frameworks like; GoR PFM basket Fund established with major financing source from World Bank IDA, EU, DFID currently FCDO, SIDA, KFW, and Enabel.
He has managed funds over 100 Million USD for governance, sustainable energy, food security and agriculture and enhanced revenue collection. and above all, Vincent has coordinated GoR PEFA assessments for both central government and sub-national governments.
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- Individual Member Representatives