Tatsumi Yamada

Tatsumi Yamada was appointed to the IASB in January 2001.

Until his appointment, he was a Partner of ChuoAoyama Audit Corporation (PricewaterhouseCoopers), Japan.

He was also a member of:

• the Business Accounting Deliberation Council
• the Financial System Council on Insurance subcommittee
• the Executive Committee of the IASC and
• the Japanese delegation at the Board of IASC.

Mr Yamada represented Japan on the Financial Instruments Joint Working Group of Standard Setters and was a member of the former IAS 39 Implementation Guidance Committee.

In 1990-3, he was seconded to Corporation Finance Research Institute (COFRI), as manager in charge of Research and Development of Financial Accounting Standards, which involved a working knowledge of International Accounting Standards, US GAAP and UK Financial Reporting Standards.

Previously he had worked for the Sumitomo Corporation in Japan and the UK.