The IFRS Foundation has staff members with a wide range of skills and experience. In this section you can meet some of them and get a better understanding of how their roles contribute to the organisation’s mission. You can find these, and other case studies, in our Annual Reports.
Jill Robinson
Senior Governance Officer
Joined: July 2001
From: United Kingdom
I work closely with the Trustees’ Nominating Committee to ensure the right people are appointed to the right positions. Recruiting for the Board, Interpretations Committee, Advisory Council and Trustees has a lot of moving parts. My job is to manage these processes and to begin building relationships with the people we bring on board
Amanda Martin
Director of Communications—Americas
Joined: November 2012
From: United States
Location: Montreal
Amanda Martin has a background in environmental studies and began her career in sustainability reporting at a public relations firm. There she witnessed the challenges of greenwashing firsthand. Working at the SASB cemented her belief in the power of standards as an antidote.
Amanda supports the communications needs of the ISSB in Canada and the US. She also plans engagements in the Americas region, for example participation in the COP15 biodiversity conference, which took place in Montreal in December 2022, and the IFRS Sustainability Symposium, which took place in Montreal in February 2023. Amanda helped to establish the Montreal office and looks forward to building awareness of and engagement with the ISSB.
Jing Zhang
Head of Climate Research
Joined: August 2022
From: China/United States
Location: San Francisco
Jing Zhang has a PhD in Statistics and spent two decades in financial risk management, including modelling the financial impacts of climate change, before joining the IFRS Foundation as Head of Climate Research.
Jing’s work involves aspects of research, standard-setting and market engagement. In 2022, he worked on the exposure draft and redeliberation of climate-related disclosures, in particular scenarios analysis and GHG emissions.
Megumi Iijima
IASB Technical Staff
Joined: July 2021
From: Japan
Location: Tokyo
Megumi Iijima is an IASB Technical Fellow and a Japanese Certified Public Accountant. She works on two of the IASB’s project teams—Provisions and Management Commentary.
She focuses on researching practices and liaising with stakeholders in the Asia-Oceania region, including translating materials to provide easily accessible information to stakeholders in Japan. Her daily work also includes preparing staff papers and speaking with stakeholders. Megumi enjoys working with people from different backgrounds.
Simon Bohannon
AV & broadcast specialist
Joined: July 2018
From: United Kingdom
My job is to connect our London office with the rest of the world using different technologies, for example, through the live streaming of Board meetings and the recording of educational webcasts. I work with colleagues to make them feel comfortable with these technologies. I am also responsible for making sure the connections work as they should when we have virtual meetings with external parties.
Carlo Pereras
IASB Technical Staff
Joined: December 2017
From: Philippines
Location: London
Carlo Pereras is a member of the IASB technical team. He leads the project on subsidiaries without public accountability within the Disclosure Initiative. A key part of his role is to evaluate stakeholder feedback and provide the IASB with recommendations. In 2022, Carlo helped deliberate feedback on the exposure draft of a new standard that would permit certain subsidiaries to apply IFRS Accounting Standards with reduced disclosures.
Carlo enjoys exploring different, occasionally conflicting, ideas and working to achieve agreement on recommendations to the IASB with his team. He finds the teamwork and intellectual challenge interesting and rewarding.
Natasha Flint
Legal counsel
Joined: December 2016
From: United Kingdom
My responsibilities range from protecting our intellectual property and brand to compliance and governance matters. I interact with different teams internally, providing them with legal and business advice. I also interact with external stakeholders, building bridges between their needs and ours and strengthening our relationships.
Gloria Lindfield
Executive coordinator
Joined: May 2009
From: Nigeria/United Kingdom
I organise the IFRS Foundation’s events and conferences, including our annual World Standard-setters Conference, liaising with colleagues, the delegates, the venue and other conference partners. Working with colleagues across the organisation, I help develop the conference programme. I also make sure relevant stakeholders are aware of and invited to the events and that all my colleagues know their conference-related responsibilities.
Fred Nieto, CFA
Technical staff—stakeholder engagement
Joined: June 2013
From: Canada
Leading a small team responsible for developing and maintaining our stakeholder engagement strategy is one of my main responsibilities. A key aspect of my role involves facilitating opportunities for a two-way dialogue that helps the IASB and technical project team meet their needs and allows for stakeholder views to be heard. By developing a wide range of relationships, I aim to find out about our stakeholders’ needs and gather views on our activities and then feed this back to the organisation.
