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Jean-Paul Servais has been appointed as the new chair of the IFRS Monitoring Board

Author: Rahman Aziz
Published: 6 Feb 2017
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The IFRS Foundation Monitoring Board has announced that Jean- Paul Servais, has been appointed as the new chair of the Monitoring Board, starting from March 2017.

Servais, has previously served as a vice-chair of the IOSCO Board and as chairman of the Financial Services and Markets Authority of Belgium.

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