Independent Expert Oversight Advisory CommitteeIEOAC Members
Mr Darshak Shah (Kenya) - Chair Term of Office: 1 January 2022 - 31 December 2027
Educational background: Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants of Great Britain (FCCA); Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya; London School of Accountancy, (London, UK) - 1977-1984.
Experience: Senior Advisor to the Administrator of UNDP; Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director of the Bureau for Management Services and Chief Finance Officer, UNDP; Comptroller and Director of Finance and Administration, Bureau of Management, UNDP; Comptroller, Bureau of Management, UNDP; Senior Resource Planning Advisor and Senior Finance Advisor at UNDP. He was also the co-chair of the Finance Budgetary Network/HLCM for several years. In addition to his experience in the UN system, Mr Shah was the Regional Controller of Neumann Gruppe, Group Financial Controller of Trade Bank and an Audit Manager at Ernst & Young.
Mr Bert Keuppens (Belgium) Term of Office: 1 May 2020 - 30 April 2024
Educational background: Certified Public Accountant, Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Certified Internal Auditor, Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA); MA, Macroeconomics, University of Ghent, Belgium; MBA, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; Executive MBA Programme, Harvard University, Boston, United States of America; Teaching experience as Professor, Vlaamse Ekonomische Hogeschool (Belgian Business School).
Experience: Senior Manager, KPMG, Brussels and Curacao; 23 years with IMF, Washington, DC, United States of America, including as Deputy Director, Finance Department and Director, Internal Audit and Inspection; Former Director, Internal Oversight Service, UNESCO, Paris; Accreditation Officer of the Pandemic Emergency Facility of the World Bank, Washington, DC; as of 2020 Member of the WIPO Independent Oversight Advisory Committee, Geneva
Mr Greg Johnson (New Zealand/Switzerland) Term of Office: 2 June 2021 - 30 April 2027
Educational background: Chartered Accountant, Member Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand;Chartered Secretary ; Honours degree in Management Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Experience: Treasurer and Financial Comptroller, Assistant Director General, International Labour Office; Operations Manager UNDP Chad; Chief Agency Accounts, UNDP New York; Senior Manager, Ernst and Whinney Chartered Accountants; various senior financial roles in the private sector. Deputy Chair UN Systems Accounting Standards Task Force; Member UNDP Audit and Evaluation Advisory Committee; Member, Endowment Fund Investment Committee, World Maritime University
Ms Beatriz Sanz Redrado (Spain/France) Term of Office: 1 January 2022 - 31 December 2027
Educational background: Insead: Leadership communication with impact; Insead: Leading Organisations in Disruptive Times; Harvard Business School: Leading change and organizational renewal; Certified in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA); Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE); Diplôme professionnel d’audit interne (DPAI); Higher studies of national defense (IHEDN): 58th National session; Certified Internal Auditor (CIA); Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Business Administration (University of Humberside, UK); Técnico en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (Universidad Pontificia Comillas / ICADE, Spain).
Experience: Director General Affairs and Director Investigation Support (European Anti-Fraud Office - OLAF, European Commission); Chief Audit Executive - Groupe Galeries Lafayette (France); Group Chief Audit Executive – DCNS (France); Chief Audit Executive - Eridania Béghin-Say (France); Project manager and Senior auditor - Marks & Spencer (France). In addition, Ms Sanz Retrado was Vice-chair and expert member of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board (UNJSPB); Member of the Advisory Committee of the European institute of fraud auditors (EIFA); Board member at the Board of Directors at the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA); Board member at IFACI; Member of the Committee of Research and Education Advisers (CREA); Chair of the Independent Advisory Oversight Committee (IAOC – WIPO); First independent expert at the accounting and financial audit committee (French Ministry of Defence).
Mr Rob Becker (Netherlands, Kingdom of the) Term of Office: 1 January 2023 - 31 December 2028
Educational background: MA Physics (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam, MA in Economics at Columbia University and an MBA at INSEAD.
Experience: Partner at McKinsey’s (Netherlands, UK, China and Singapore). Chief Financial or Chief Executive Officer of various divisions of Achmea Insurance (Netherlands). Member/chair of various (audit) committees/boards, including with AXA UK and ABP, the Dutch pension fund. Chair of the advisory boards of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce and the Dutch State Treasury Agency. Previously Chair Audit Committee of the University of Amsterdam and chair of the board of a hospital (Netherlands). In addition, Mr Becker was the chair of the international nongovernmental organisation Aflatoun.
