Pauline Wallace was appointed as inaugural chair of the UKEB in September 2020.
Pauline is a chartered accountant with over thirty years’ experience in accounting standards, including as a national standard setter in the UK and Hong Kong. She subsequently became an accounting technical partner, initially with Arthur Andersen and subsequently with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she established and led the global financial instruments team during the transition of EU listed companies to IFRS and through the global financial crisis. She was PwC’s UK head of public policy and regulatory affairs until her retirement from the firm in 2013.
Pauline is currently a member of the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator and previously served two terms as a member of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the Financial Conduct Authority.
Pauline was a member of the UK Accounting Standards Board from 2010 to 2016 and a member of the ICAEW’s Regulatory Board from 2015 to 2019.