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The IFRS Foundation Constitution states that 'the mix of Trustees shall broadly reflect the world’s capital markets and diversity of geographical and professional backgrounds to ensure a broad set of skills, experience and perspectives’. Six of the Trustees must be selected from the Asia/Oceania region, six from Europe, six from the Americas, one from Africa and three can be from any area, subject to maintaining overall geographical balance.

Africa

  • Suresh P. Kana, South Africa

Asia/Oceania

  • Teresa Ko, Hong Kong (Vice Chair)
  • Koushik Chatterjee, India
  • Sukjoon Lee, South Korea
  • Chong-Tee Ong, Singapore
  • Keiko Tashiro, Japan
  • Wencai Zhang, China

Europe

  • Bertrand Badré, France
  • Steven Maijoor, the Netherlands
  • Erkki Liikanen, Finland (Chair)
  • Giovanni Sabatini, Italy
  • Erhard Schipporeit, Germany
  • Richard Sexton, UK

The Americas

  • Rudolf Bless, US
  • Isabel Saint Malo, Panama
  • Robert Pozen, US
  • Kenneth Robinson, US
  • Maria Theofilaktidis, Canada (Vice Chair)
  • Jorge Familiar, Mexico

Appointed from any area

  • Sarah Al Suhaimi, Saudi Arabia
  • Morgan Després, France
  • Masamichi Kono, Japan