CA. Nihar N Jambusaria was appointed to the IFAC PAIB Advisory Group in January 2021.

CA. Nihar N Jambusaria has been elected as the Vice President of ICAI for the year 2020-21. CA. Jambusaria was in practice for nearly 27 years.

CA. Jambusaria is now Vice-Chairman of all Standing Committees including Executive, Finance and Examination Committees, besides being the ex-officio member of all Non-Standing Committees of ICAI. He is Director of the ICAI Research wing ICAI – Accounting Research Foundation (ARF) and Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) India. CA. Jambusaria is appointed as Director of ICAI Registered Valuers Organisation (RVO).

CA. Jambusaria has been nominated as ICAI representative as Member for Committee on Corporate Governance Guidelines for Insurers of IRDA in India. He has also been nominated on the Review Committee for the B.Com (Hons) and B.Com Commerce New Syllabus for all the Universities in the Country by the University Grants Commission(UGC).

Jambusaria has represented ICAI in many important committees constituted by the Government Ministries/ Regulators. He was a Member of the e –Commerce Committee formed by the Ministry of Finance and Peer Review Committee of the Central Board of Direct Taxes.

CA. Jambusaria has been a prolific speaker at national and international forum and addressed more than 900 seminars / conferences.

Ms. Daping Gao was appointed to the IFAC PAIB Advisory Group in January 2020.

Daping is a Deputy Director-general of Accounting Regulatory Department of the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China. She is a Certified Public Accountant (non-practicing) and Senior Accountant in China.

With professional experiences over 20 years, she has played an important role in management accounting, accounting standards and CPA regulation as well as the Product Cost Accounting Rules for Business Enterprises in China.  Revenue, Consolidated Financial Statements, Long-term Equity, Joint arrangements, Disclosure of Interests in Other Entities and Foreign Currency Translation are the major standards that she has been involved in. She has also been engaged in developing interpretations of Chinese Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises, Product Cost Accounting Rules for Business Enterprises and several other accounting regulations. She played a key role in the development of China’s management accounting system, which consists of a basic guideline, 34 application guidelines and a case library currently in nearly five years.

Ichiro Waki became a member of the IFAC Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Advisory Group in January 2020. He was nominated by the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA).

Mr. Ichiro Waki is the Group CEO of JBA Group, who has been established since 2006 with 5 co-partners and now with more than 100 professionals in various areas to provide such consulting services as accounting, tax, legal, labor, IT and recruitment. Before the current career, he has been a financial controller and FP&A in Japanese subsidiaries of the US and European based companies since 1996, and worked as an auditor in Coopers & Lybrand Tokyo since 1992 after he passed the CPA examination while in Waseda University.

Mr. Ichiro Waki has been an executive board member of JICPA since 2019 and served in various volunteer leadership roles with the JICPA, including as Chairperson of PAIB Committee, and as a leadership member of D&I (Diversity and Inclusion). In the past 10 years, he has been working in a committee of JICPA to develop CPE programs (5 years for CPAs in private practice and latest 5 years for PAIBs).

CPA Margaret Muinde was appointed a member of the Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Advisory Group of International Federation Accountants (IFAC) in January 2020 representing Africa and Middle East Region. Ms. Muinde was nominated by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK).

Ms. Muinde has over 15 years’ wealth of knowledge and experience at managerial positions in finance and financial management, external audit, taxation, strategy, risk management, corporate governance, accounting, taxation, procurement, internal audit and consulting in public, private and non-governmental organizations ranging from manufacturing, education, infrastructure sectors in and out of Kenya. Ms. Muinde has worked in various capacities in Kenya Roads Board, Ernst & Young (EY) and PKF International. Ms. Muinde has had multi-jurisdiction exposure dealing with various regulatory reporting requirements and is also well versed in formulation of policies.

Ms. Muinde is a Certified Public Accountant and member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) and a pioneering member of Association of Women Accountants of Kenya (AWAK). Ms. Muinde is serving the second term in ICPAK’s - Strategy & Finance Committee having been first appointed in 2017. The committee is entrusted with an oversight role on the Institute’s financial management, strategic planning, monitoring and reporting, ICT strategy and implementation, and facilities management and reports to the ICPAK Council and liases with other committees on the Institute on matters pertaining professional accountants in business.

Ms. Muinde holds Masters in Business Administration (Finance Option) and Bachelor of Arts (Double Mathematics and Economics), both from the University of Nairobi. She is also a Certified Public Secretary of Kenya (CPSK) finalist. MS. Muinde holds post graduate certificates in Senior Leadership Development Programme, Board competence from Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Results Based Management (RBM) and Performance Measures from Setym International, Canada, Senior Executive Programme in Road Financing, Restructuring and Management from University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Project Planning and Management from Danida Fellowship Programme, among others. Ms. Muinde is also both ISO 9001: 2015 - Quality Management Systems and ISO 27001: 2013 - Information Security Management Systems Certified Auditor. Ms. Muinde has attended several other courses locally and internationally.

Ms. Muinde has also been instrumental in the coordination and organization of the Financial Reporting in various organizations as both an auditor and financial analyst / manager, which has led to recognition of the Kenya Roads Board in the Financial Reporting Award (FiRe Award) annual ceremony, which awards financial reporting excellence in Kenya and the East African region. Ms. Muinde has a wide exposure on global practices in professional accounting and practice having lead the 1st institution on Kenya in the adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs).

Ms. Muinde current responsibilities in her current role include planning, budgeting and reporting, development, coordination and implementation of policies and strategies, ensuring compliance with International Standards, treasury management and taxation, financial reporting, strategic management and leadership including performance contracting and development and monitoring of work plans, resource mobilization, risk management, governance and compliance, human and ICT resources management, among others. Ms. Muinde is currently one of the team player in the USD 1.5 Billion Roads Development Infrastructure Financing in Kenya.

Gloria Zvaravanhu joined the IFAC Professional Accountants in Business Advisory Group in January 2020, nominated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ).

Gloria is currently Managing Director at Old Mutual ZW. A Chartered Accountant by profession, she is CEO of ICAZ and was the second female president in ICAZ’s 100-year history. With 17 years of experience in financial management, thirteen of which at Executive Management level.

Gloria has vast experience in the insurance sector, where she served in both life and non-life insurance companies at executive level between the period 2005-2018. She served as a General Manager at NicozDiamond Insurance Limited, a Finance Executive at First Mutual Life and has served on Insurance company Boards in Mozambique and Zambia.

Before joining the insurance sector in 2005, she was a Manager at KPMG Chartered Accountants in both audit and Corporate Finance departments.

She is an alumnus of the prestigious Fortune 500 Global women mentoring program where she was mentored by one of the top ‘50 Most Powerful Women in Business’ in the United States.

She holds a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from Rhodes University, South Africa and a Master in Business Leadership degree from the University of South Africa. She recently completed (October 2019) an LLM degree in International Business Law with the University of Cumbria, UK.

She serves as the Chair of Chengetedzayi Depository Company Board in Zimbabwe and is also the Chairperson of the Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe. She serves on several other audit committees in Zimbabwe.

At continental level she serves on the Pan African Federation of Accountants Board where she represents Southern Africa and also serves on the Africa Integrated Reporting Council.

Gloria has won several business accolades in Zimbabwe that include Female Manager of the year (2013), Corporate Governance Professional of the year (2017), Young Professional leader of the year (2018).