Patrick de Cambourg

Board Member
European Financial Reporting Advisory Group

about

Patrick de Cambourg has been President of the French accounting standards setting authority (ANC/ Autorité des normes comptables) since 2015. As such he is also member of the IASB forum of major standards setters (ASAF), Board member of the French capital markets regulatory and supervisory authority (AMF), of the French banking and insurance supervisory authority (ACPR) and of the French financial stability board (HCSF). At the special request of the French government, he recently prepared two reports on the future of the accounting profession (June 2018) and on propositions to develop further non-financial information (« Ensuring the relevance and reliability of non-financial information: an ambition and a competitive advantage for a sustainable Europe ». May 2019.). After having chaired the first Project Task Force (Corporate reporting Lab@EFRAG) created to respond to the request received from the European Commission on preparatory work for the elaboration of possible European Union non-financial reporting standards (« Proposals for a relevant and dynamic EU sustainability reporting standard-setting ». February 2021), he chaired the second ERAG Project Task Force dedicated to the elaboration of draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards until April 2022. He is currently a member of the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board. Patrick de Cambourg, a Political Sciences graduate (Sciences Po Paris), holds also degrees in public law and business law and is Bachelor of Arts. As chartered accountant and auditor, he spent his professional career within the Mazars Group, successively as junior, manager and partner. He became President of Mazars in 1983. In 1995, he was appointed as Chairman of the Management Board of the then created international partnership and became in 2012 Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Since late 2014, he has been Honorary President of the Mazars Group.