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, formerly Manager, Financial Management, South Asia at the World Bank, is the full-time Chairman of the ASB. Originally from New Zealand, Ian has spent much of his career in Australia, first with Coopers and Lybrand and later as a consultant in his own practice. In November 2002, Ian was appointed Chief Accountant of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission. 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 has also been a member of the IASB's Standards Advisory Council since its inception in 2001. Ian also 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		Head of Equity Research, Insight Investment
Michael Ashley		Partner, KPMG
Edward Beale		Chief Executive, City Group plc
Marisa Cassoni		Finance Director, John Lewis Group
Peter Elwin		Head of Accounting and Valuation Research, JP Morgan Cazenove (Cazenove Equities)
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
Professor Geoffrey Whittington CBE		Former member of the International Accounting Standards Board

Observers
Ken Beeton		Director of Government Reporting, HM Treasury
Geoff Dart		Director, Company Law and Investigations, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Ian Drennan		Chief Executive, Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority
Bob Garnett		International Accounting Standards Board

Secretary
Simon Peerless