Independent Expert Oversight Advisory CommitteeIEOAC Members
Mr Greg Johnson (New Zealand/Switzerland) - Chair Term of Office: 2 June 2021 - 31 May 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
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 & Company (Netherlands, UK, China and Singapore). Chief Financial or Chief Executive Officer of divisions of Achmea Insurance (Netherlands). Currently: Non-executive director at AXA insurance UK; Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Zuyderland Hospital and care Group; Chair of the Supervisory Board of FMO (Dutch entrepreneurial development bank). 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 vice chair of AFM, the Dutch financial conduct regulator. In addition, Mr Becker was the chair of the international nongovernmental organization Aflatoun.
Ms Aseya Galadari (Bahrain) Term of Office: 1 May 2024 - 30 April 2027
Educational background: Certified Public Accountant, Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and licensed by the California Board of Accountancy; Associate Member of GCC Board of Directors Institute; MSc Strategic FinTech, School of Business, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); MBA, DePaul University, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business (Chicago, United States of America); BSc Accountancy, University of Bahrain (Bahrain).
Experience: Head of Audit and Member of Country Governance forums at the Standard Chartered Bank of Bahrain; Head of Audit & Risk at the Venture Capital Bank of Bahrain; Finance Directorate at IMF Washington D.C. and the Arab Monetary Fund (Abu Dhabi); Senior Audit Manager at the Ahli United Bank (Bahrain); Senior Bank Examiner at the Central Bank of Bahrain; Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young (Bahrain).
Ms Marian McMahon (Canada) Term of Office: 1 July 2026 - 30 June 2029
Educational background: Fellow of the Chartered Accountants of Ontario FCA; Chartered Financial Analyst; Chartered Professional Accountant (Canada); Bachelor of Arts – Economics (Queen’s University, Canada).
Experience: Chair, Audit Committee (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe); Vice-Chair, Audit Committee (United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund); Chair, Independent Oversight Advisory Committee (International Labour Organization); Treasurer and Chair, Governance Committee (Food Bank Board of Directors, Ottawa, Canada); Assistant Auditor General (Canada); member Canadian Audit and Assurance Standards Board.
Mr Darshak Shah (Kenya) 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.
