Associate Director in International Auditing and Assurance Standards for Ernst & Young Global
Prior to this, Josef was the inaugural XBRL Practice Fellow with the IASC Foundation - the parent foundation, created as part of the reorganisation in 2000 to oversee the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Josef is the longest serving practice fellow in its 20 year history. In this role he founded the IASC Foundation XBRL Team, which he led from its inception.
As founding Chair of the IFRS Taxonomy Working Group, Josef was primarily responsibility was to coordinate development of the core IFRS-based XBRL taxonomies and their support applications and to initiate and direct IFRS XBRL-based projects.
He is currently chairman of the IASB IT Discussion Group and the IASB’s representative to the European Committee of Central Balance Sheet Data Offices (ECCBSO). He is XBRL project leader for the ECCBSO Third Working Group’s IFRS projects.
Josef is a former Chairman of the XBRL International Domain Working Group and was an Interim XBRL Standards Board member.
Josef graduated with a BCom and LLB from the University of Auckland. He is a New Zealand Chartered Accountant, as well as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.
