David Cairns, Esq, OBE

Career: chartered accountant; Pannell Kerr Forster 1964-71, Carlsberg Brewery Ltd 1971-72, Black & Decker Ltd 1972-75, ptnr Stoy Hayward 1975-85, sec gen Int Accounting Standards Ctee 1985-94, dir Int Fin Reporting 1995-; conslt World Bank Centre for Financial Reporting Reform (Vienna) 2009-; LSE: PD Leake fell 1973-75, visiting fell 1995-2004, visiting prof 2004-10; memb: Financial Reporting Review Panel 2006-; pres Thames Valley Soc of Chartered Accountants 1979-80; chm of tstees Turville Village Hall Northend 2008-11, chm Turville Parish Cncl 2009-; FCA 1974 (ACA)

Books and Publications: Current Cost Accounting after Sandilands (1976), Financial Times Survey of 100 Major European Companies Reports and Accounts (1979), Financial Times World Survey of Annual Reports (1980), Survey of Accounts and Accountants (1983-84), Applying International Accounting Standards (2002), FT International Accounting Standards Survey (1999), The Convergence Handbook (2000), The International Accounting Standards Survey (2001)