Board member of the ASBJ elected next IFASS Chair
02 Jan, 2019
The International Forum of Accounting Standard Setters (IFASS) has elected Mr Yasunobu Kawanishi, Board member of the Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ), as Chair-designate.
Mr Kawanishi became Director of International Activities at the ASBJ in 2013. From 2013-2016 he was Visiting Fellow at the IASB. In 2016 he became a full-time Board member of the ASBJ.
Mr Kawanishi follows Ms Liesel Knorr, former President of the German standard-setter ASCG, who was elected IFASS Chair in 2016 and who will hand over responsibilities to her successor in March 2019.
The ASCG and the ASBJ have issued press releases announcing the upcoming change in IFASS chairmanship.