Georg Lanfermann

President

Joachimsthaler Str. 34
10719 Berlin

+49 (0)30 206412-11

+49 (0)30 206412-15

1969

born in Cologne (Germany)

1989 - 1994

Studies of Business Administration at Saarland University, Saarbrücken (Germany) with majors in financial accounting and tax law

1994 - 2001

Senior Manager at Deloitte, Düsseldorf (Germany); main areas of work: statutory audits; company valuation, financial due diligence, forensic services

2001 - 2004

Detached National Expert at European Commission, DG Internal Market, Brussels, Belgium; assignment to Prof. Karel Van Hulle’s Unit G4 ‚Accounting and Statutory Audit‘; main areas of work: European reaction to US Sarbanes-Oxley Act und EU Audit Directive 2006; secondment by Arthur Andersen / Ernst & Young

2005 - Januar 2021

Partner at KPMG in Berlin; Department of Professional Practice; Regulatory Lead Germany and EU 28/EMA region on legislative developments in the areas of statutory audit, corporate reporting and corporate governance

since March 2021

President of the Accounting Standards Committee of Germany, Berlin

since January 2022

Member of the EFRAG Administrative Board

since February 2022

Vice President of the EFRAG Administrative Board

Memberships

Since 2014 Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the German Federal Chamber of Auditors (‘Wirtschaftsprüferkammer’ (WPK))
Since 2019 Member of the Corporate Governance Reporting Working Group ("AKCGR") of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft
2008 – January 2021 Member of the European Contact Group, the European public interest representation of the six largest professional service firm networks; German regulatory champion and Chair of the Assurance & Ethics Task Force

Professional Qualifications

1994: Diploma in Business Administration, Saarland University
1998: Qualified tax consultant (‚Steuerberater‘)
2000: Qualified statutory auditor (‚Wirtschaftsprüfer‘)

Teaching assignments AT UNIVERSITIES

Since 2006 Lecturer on ‘International Auditing’, University of Potsdam (Germany)

LANGUAGES

German, English, French, Spanish

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