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Women Take the Lead: Get to Know Accounting's Changemakers
04-Apr-2023
NEW YORK - There is striking evidence in the world highlighting the positive impact of women’s leadership. On International Women’s Day 2023, IFAC is launching a series of interviews featuring inspirational women with diverse roles and backgrounds who all have one thing in common: their accountancy education has contributed to their accomplishments.
Featuring IFAC President Asmâa Resmouki.
Our first interview highlights the 2023 International Women’s Day theme, DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.
Asmâa Resmouki- President, IFAC
Country: Morocco
Ms. Asmâa Resmouki became IFAC President in November 2022. Prior to becoming President, Ms. Resmouki was appointed Deputy President in November 2020 after serving on the IFAC board since November 2017, originally nominated to the board by the Ordre Des Experts Comptables—Morocco. As Deputy President, Ms. Resmouki chaired the IFAC Planning and Finance Committee having previously chaired the board's Governance Subcommittee prior to her election as Deputy President.
Ms. Resmouki is a Past President of the Pan African Federation of Accountants (PAFA). She served on the PAFA Board since 2011, as vice president and chair of the Planning, Human Capital, and Financial Committee from 2013 to 2015 and as president from 2015 to 2017.
Ms. Resmouki has more than twenty-five years of experience in assurance services, including serving as audit partner in the large auditing firms (Deloitte and EY) in Morocco, where she led auditing in various industry and service sectors, including real estate, mining, pharmaceutical, consumer business, automobile, and tourism. She has extensive experience in other types of engagement, such as due diligence and valuation, agreed-upon procedures, and internal control review. During her career, she was also a finance director for a multinational company.
Ms. Resmouki performed quality reviews of auditing firms within the Ordre Des Experts Comptables—Morocco from 2008 to 2011. She was also a member of the Regional Council of Chartered Accountants in Morocco from 2011 to 2014, and served as chair of the Audit Quality Review Committee.
Source: www.ifac.org