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As the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development reaches its mid-point, the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) and its member Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) continue their strong engagement and contribution to effective, accountable, and inclusive public institutions for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On July 15, IDI and its partners will host an INTOSAI Side Event at the United Nation's High-level Political Forum. This event aims to bring together SAIs and key stakeholders to showcase SAI contributions to effective, accountable, and inclusive public institutions, as envisioned in SDG 16, through audits of SDG implementation. The full agenda includes remarks and panel discussions with subject matter experts, and will highlight areas such as the elimination of poverty, climate action, and core processes for implementation of the SDGs.
Additionally, the event will launch an updated version of IDI’s SDGs Audit Model (ISAM), designed to support SAIs in continuing to conduct high-quality and hight-impact audits of SDG implementation.This event is being co-organised by the INTOSAI General Secretariat, the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI), the INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA), SAI Brazil and the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations (UN), in collaboration with the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).
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Speaker Bios:
Ambassador Sérgio França Danese (Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1954), a career diplomat, is, since June 28, 2023, the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations in New York. A former high school student in the Colégio de Aplicação of the University of São Paulo, he graduated at that University in 1976 with a major in Modern Languages, and was a graduate student in Hispanic American Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1977-1979). He entered the Instituto Rio Branco, Brazil's Diplomatic Academy, in 1980, and graduated as a Third Secretary of Embassy in December 1981, having received the Rio Branco Award and the Vermeil Medal. He was promoted to Second Secretary in June 1984, First Secretary in June 1989, Counselor in December 1994, Minister in June 2000, and Ambassador in December 2008.
Mr. Walton Alencar Rodrigues, Minister of the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts since 1999, is a renowned jurist with a distinguished career in law and public administration. A law graduate from the University of Brasilia, where he also completed his master's degree in Public Law with distinction, Rodrigues has a solid academic base complemented by studies in Constitutional Hermeneutics. His career in the Public Prosecution Office has included prominent positions, such as Attorney General of the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts (MPTCU), reflecting his expertise in various areas of law. Internationally, he served as Secretary General of the Organization of the Supreme Audit Institution of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (OISC/CPLP) from 2014 to 2024 and, as of 2024, will assume the role of Coordinating Minister for Brazil's auditors on the UN Board of Auditors, highlighting his influence and competence in auditing and oversight at national and global levels.
Dr. Ronald Roedl took over in December 2020 the position as Director General and Authorized Representative of the INTOSAI Secretary General.Roedl studied business administration and public administration in Austria and New York (Syracuse University), and his prior experience includes managing, inter alia, the Austrian Federal Province of Styria Liaison Office with the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. During his professional career, he has gained comprehensive knowledge in digital government and change management at the national and international levels
Ms. Archana Shirsat is a Deputy Director General at INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) based in Oslo, Norway. IDI is an INTOSAI body that works towards effective, accountable, and inclusive Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) for better societies and improved lives. IDI has a strategic focus on sustainability, digitalization, and public trust in SAIs. Within IDI, she is a part of the management team and heads a department that works towards a vision of professionalism and relevance of SAIs. Her team delivers its mandate by supporting SAIs in developing competent SAI audit professionals, effective SAI audit leaders, sustainable SAI audit practices and raising the profile of SAI audits. As a part of supporting SAI relevance her department currently facilitates audits of SDGs implementation, equality & inclusion, digital transformation and climate action for SAIs across the world.
Ms. Aránzazu Guillán Montero is a Senior Governance and Public Administration Officer at the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government in the United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs (DPIDG /UN DESA). Before joining DESA, she was a Senior Program Advisor at U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (Norway) with a focus on mainstreaming anti-corruption into sector programs and strengthening people’s engagement in anti-corruption. Previously, she worked for the World Bank, both in operational work and capacity development, on public sector management reform, transparency, access to information and accountability in Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia and South-East Europe. Aránzazu holds a PhD in Government and a Master in Public Policy from Georgetown University (USA).
Mrs. Pamela Monroe Ellis was appointed Auditor General of Jamaica in 2008. Since then, she has served on the Board of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), the Board of the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) as well as Chair of the International Financial Reporting for Non-Profit Organizations (IFR4NPO) Steering Committee. She has been appointed Secretary-General of the Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (CAROSAI) and Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Audit Committee. She is also a member of the ACCA Global Forum for the Public Sector. Mrs. Monroe Ellis also served at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica (ICAJ) for over 15 years in various capacities. Currently, she is one of the Commissioners of Jamaica’s New Integrity Commission and a member of the Board of the Governor-General of Jamaica Trust. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica (ICAJ) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA, UK).
Mr. Alfredo Gómez serves as a Director in the Natural Resources and Environment team of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). He manages the team’s work in environmental protection and climate change issues. His portfolio includes, for example, work in cleanup of hazardous substances, drinking and clean water issues, ecosystem restoration, management of toxic chemicals, and climate resilience. Mr. Gómez has produced numerous reports and congressional testimonies addressing a wide range of environmental, natural resource and agency management issues. He has represented SAI USA in the INTOSAI WGEA for over 10 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Rice University and a master’s degree in public policy studies from the Harris School at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Rebecca Vassallo has been working within SAI Malta for the last eleven years, conducting compliance and performance audits. Given her academic background in applied statistics and research methodology, she also assists others units within the SAI with related tasks. Rebecca also has strong expertise in audits of SDG implementation, having contributed to the development of IDI’s SDG Audit Model (ISAM), participated in the IDI’s SDG 3d audit programme as a mentor to ASOSAI participants, organised and delivered SDG training held in collaboration with UNDP Bosnia and Herzegovina and conducted two audits of SDG implementation, one focusing on poverty and the other on obesity.
Dr. Sabina Alkire is the Professor of Poverty and Human Development and directsthe Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University ofOxford. Previously, she worked at the George Washington University, HarvardUniversity, the Human Security Commission, and the World Bank. She has a DPhilin Economics from the University of Oxford. Together with Professor James Foster, Sabina developed the Alkire-Foster (AF)method for measuring multidimensional poverty, a flexible technique that canincorporate different dimensions, or aspects of poverty, to create measurestailored to each context. With colleagues at OPHI this has been applied andimplemented empirically to produce a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). TheMPI offers a tool to identify who is poor by considering the range of deprivationsthey suffer. It is used to report a headline figure of poverty (the MPI), which canbe unpacked to provide a detailed information platform for policy designshowing how people are poor nationally, and how they are poor by areas,groups, and by each indicator.Sabina was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK 2021and was voted one of the top 100 thinkers by Forbes magazine in 2010.
Mr. Bahtiar Arif has been BPK Secretary General since March 2018. Prior to his current position, he was Director General of Audit Department II (auditing economic and financial sector) from September 2016 – March 2018. He led the Directorate General of Planning, Evaluation and Development from March 2014. He was Auditor in Charge for auditing SDG Preparedness in Indonesia (2017) as well as for auditing International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), International Maritime Organization (IMO), Inter-Parliamentary Union, and Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF).He holds Doctoral degree in Management from University of Padjadjaran, Indonesia (2022) and Master in Development Finance from the University of Manchester, UK (2000), while his Bachelor degree was in Economics - from the University of Indonesia (1996). He is Chartered Accountant and Certified Public Accountant.
Ms. Claire Schouten works with government institutions, civil society actors, international organizations, investors and development partners around the world to advance budget transparency, participation, credibility and accountability practices. Claire is a specialist in social accountability, action learning, capacity development, and policy guidance. Claire has held positions in the Canadian government, United Nations and non-governmental organizations and has worked in Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, Central and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East over the last twenty-five years. She holds degrees from McGill University and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Ms. Petra Bayr is a Member of the Austrian National Council and SPÖ spokesperson for global development. She is currently President of the European Parliamentarian Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF), General Rapporteur on Combating Racism and Intolerance at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Coucil of Europe, Member of the Committee on Strategy, Investment and Policy of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Board Member and Treasurer of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA).
Mr. Adriano Juras works as Manager for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Facilitating Audit Impact (FAI) at the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI). He has served as a performance auditor for 10 years at the Federal Court of Accounts, the Supreme Audit Institution of Brazil, as has been working with preparedness and SDG audits since 2016. Adriano coordinated the last two editions of the Coordinated Audits on Protected Areas, in which 23 SAIs and 9 subnational audit institutions from Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia took part.