Board Members

Membership of the ASB is limited to a maximum of eleven, of whom two (the Chairman and the Technical Director) are full-time members and the remainder are part-time members. Appointments to the ASB are made by a Nominations Committee which comprises the chairman and directors of the FRC.

Chairman
Ian Mackintosh		Ian Mackintosh is the full-time Chair of the ASB. Originally from New Zealand, Ian has spent much of his career in Australia, first with Coopers & Lybrand and later as a consultant in his own practice. In November 2000, he was appointed Chief Accountant of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and following that was Manager, Financial Management, South Asia at the World Bank. Ian has played an active role in standard-setting since 1983. He was a member, and later Deputy Chairman, of the Australian Accounting Standards Board, as well as chairing its Urgent Issues Group. Ian is also a member of the International Accounting Standards Board's Standards Advisory Council. He has substantial public sector experience, having chaired both the Australian Public Sector Accounting Standards Board and the IFAC Public Sector Committee.

Technical Director
David Loweth

Members
Nick Anderson		Chief Operating Officer, Arete Research LLP
Edward Beale		Chief Executive, City Group plc
Marisa Cassoni		Finance Director, John Lewis Group
Peter Elwin		Head of European Pensions Strategy Research, JP Morgan
Ken Lever		Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Numonyx BV
Robert Overend		Technical Partner, Ernst & Young's Financial Reporting Group
Andy Simmonds		Consultation Partner, Deloitte
Pauline Wallace		Head of UK Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Observers
Michael Ashley		(EFRAG TEG Observer) Partner, KPMG
Ken Beeton		Director of Government Reporting, HM Treasury
Richard Carter		Company Law and Investigations, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Ian Drennan		Chief Executive, Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority
Bob Garnett		International Accounting Standards Board