Ruth Richardson to tackle debt crisis
The former finance minister is to speak at a global seminar focused on the ongoing sovereign debt crisis.
Former Finance Minister Ruth Richardson is to speak at a global seminar focused on the ongoing sovereign debt crisis.
An international public policy consultant since she left Parliament in 1994, Ms Richardson is due to speak at The Sovereign Debt Crisis, a Matter of Urgency – From Lessons to Reform, to be held in Vienna from March 19-20.
Her address, set down for the first day, is entitled “Code of fiscal responsibility – keeping sovereign states out of budget, accounting and financial management trouble'.
Topics to be discussed at the seminar, organised by the International Federation of Accountants, also include the role of international public sector accounting standards adoption and implementation in financial management and reform, the complexity of public interest reporting and government financial management versus the private sector.
Other speakers include Vincenzo La Via, chief financial officer of the World Bank Group, the Hon. David Walker, founder and chief executive of the Comeback America initiative and former United States Comptroller General, International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board chairman Andreas Bergmann, and KPMG global chairman - government and infrastructure, John M Herhalt.
According to seminar documents, the two days are aimed at key decision makers, politicians, public finance management leaders and journalists who work in finance, accounting, auditing and budgeting.
Ms Richardson was sponsored as a speaker at the event by the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Colin Williscroft
Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Ruth Richardson to tackle debt crisis
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