Supporting Accounting and Auditing Developments and Synergies

Skopje, North Macedonia
June 2021

About the conference

The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and the Centre of Excellence in Finance (CEF) hosted their first joint conference in June 2021. The conference was organised as a platform for exchanging expert knowledge, experience, best practices and recommendations to public sector accountants and auditors, both regionally and globally.

Discussions were led by renowned international and regional experts on the following topics:   

  • Managing public sector assets
  • Fraud and anti-corruption
  • Leadership
  • Promoting accountants’ and auditors’ learning and knowledge sharing

Who attended?

Conference delegates included:

  • Accountants and auditors of ministries of finance and line ministries
  • Representatives of supreme audit institutions and other public sector institutions
  • Human resource managers
  • Representatives of academia
  • Certified CIPFA accountants and auditors
  • Public officials

Speakers and contributors

Speakers from a broad range of public sector and academic background gave talks and helped deliver the conference’s ambitious agenda.

Managing public sector assets

  • Eugenio Anessi-Pessina Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy
  • David Bentley CIPFA
  • Ivan Dionisijev St. Cyril and Methodius, Faculty of Economics in Skopje, North Macedonia
  • Gorana Roje Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets, Croatia

Anti-corruption

  • Aneta Arnaudovska Regional Anti-corruption Initiative (RAI), Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Les Dobie CIPFA
  • Verena Fritz World Bank
  • Simon Gill Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
  • Ljupcho Nikolovski Deputy Prime Minister in Charge of Fight Against Corruption and Crime, Sustainable Development and Human Resources, Ministry of Finance, North Macedonia
  • Carlos Santiso Development Bank of Latin America CAF
  • Edmond Shoko AFROSAI-E
  • Alina Mungiu-Pippidi European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building & Hertie Schoo

Promoting accountants’ and auditors’ learning and knowledge sharing 

  • Maksim Acevski State Audit Office, North Macedonia
  • Barbara Dutzler JVI
  • Natasha Ilijeva Acevska Senior Program Officer, CEF
  • Alastair Swarbrick OECD SIGMA
  • Ahmet Ismaili State Treasury of the Ministry of Finance, Kosovo

Leadership for reforms 

  • Dritan Fino Ministry of Finance, Albania
  • Ana Krsmanović President of the Audit Council, Montenegro
  • Hristina Lozanoska Executive Coach and HR Mentor, North Macedonia
  • Amina Mulabdić Directorate for Economic Planning (DEP), Bosnia and Herzegovina

Organising and supporting the conference

  • Jasmina Popović Program Officer, CEF
  • Kristina Bogdan Event Facilitator, CEF
  • Robert Bauchmüller Chief Program Officer, CEF
  • Natasha Ilijeva Acevska Senior Program Officer, CEF
  • Želimir Stanić Event Facilitator, CEF
  • Urška Miklič Partnership and Communications Specialist, CEF
  • Khalid Hamid International Director, CIPFA
  • Steve Watkins CIPFA
  • Callahan Hager CIPFA
  • Victoria Strachan CIPFA

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