Members of the group

Alison Duncan, Audit Partner and Head of Regulatory and Public Policy, (PRG Chair)

Alison has been with EY for 31 years, 20 of which as a partner, in which time she has been the Global Client Service and Lead Audit Partner on a number of FTSE 100 companies. Currently, she is the EMEIA Channel 1 G360 GCSP representative on the Global Accounts Committee and Head of UK Regulatory and Public Policy.

Alison has held a number of firm governance roles including Deputy Chair of the UK&I Regional Partner Forum and a member of both EY’s EMEIA Advisory Council and Global Governance Council until November 2023. As part of these governance roles, she has been a member of the EY UK Board as a UK&I Partner Forum representative and has chaired the EY UK Audit Committee. Alison has also held a number of leadership positions including UK&I Assurance Digital Assurance Leader, and Managing Partner for People when she was a member of the UK Executive.

Alison is a board member and chairs the Finance Committee of Teach First, a charity committed to giving children facing the biggest barriers the chance to fulfil their potential through making our education system work for every child.

David Isherwood, BDO, Head of Technical Standards Group’s Audit Advisory Team and Ethics Partner

David is the Head of Technical Standards Group’s Audit Advisory team, which essentially owns large parts of the firm’s audit methodology, audit and related tools, quality control and training.

In addition to this he represents the firm on a number of committees and working parties of the WCCAEW, ICAEW, IFAC, FEE, GPPC, PRG and the International BDO network. David is also the firm’s Ethics Partner.

Greg is a Mazars’ Audit Partner and leads the UK Banking and Capital Markets group.

He is a member of the UK Audit Executive and specialises in the audits of banks and similar financial institutions ranging from large international investment banks to domestic building societies.  He is a board member of the FS Faculty of the ICAEW and represents Mazars at various industry forums including with the financial regulators.

He is a technical specialist and has provided training and education on banking topics such as IFRS 9 implementation to firms and regulators across Europe.

John Bennett, Chief Risk Officer

John was appointed Chief Risk Officer (“CRO”) for the UK on 1 October 2020. He is a member of the Executive Board and responsible for transforming KPMG’s approach to risk management and risk culture to meet the increasing demands of our clients, regulators and stakeholders.

John joined KPMG as an Audit graduate in 2000 after gaining a PhD from Cambridge becoming ACA qualified, in 2003. John became a Partner within Audit in 2013 and has spent the last 19 years working with Media and Software companies. His experience ranges from working with complex PLCs and public interest entities to large private equity organisations moving towards IPO. In July 2018 John was appointed Audit Chief Transformation Officer responsible for design and implementation of a new delivery model for KPMGs Audit Practice.

In November 2019 John was appointed Audit Chief Operating Officer responsible for operations, finance and transformation of KPMG’s Audit Practice. A role he undertook until October 2020 when he was appointed CRO.

Paul Viljoen, Grant Thornton, Audit Partner

Paul is the head of the firm’s Quality Support Team, which is focussed on supporting the firm’s audits of public interest entities. He has experience of working at the UK’s regulator of accountants and auditors, having particular expertise in inspection and enforcement activities, international standard-setting, ethics and independence.

Shauna Robinson, Audit & Assurance Public Policy, Regulation and Reputational Risk Lead Partner

Shauna is Deloitte’s lead partner for Audit & Assurance Public Policy, Regulation and Reputational Risk. She is a member of Deloitte’s Audit & Assurance Executive. Shauna leads Deloitte’s relationship with the FRC across a range of matters. Shauna is actively involved in investor and stakeholder engagement, is a member of the Policy and Regulation Group (PRG) and a member of the Board of the Audit and Assurance Faculty of the ICAEW.

Sotiris Kroustis, Audit Partner and Head of Public Policy

Sotiris is a PwC UK partner and chartered accountant with over twenty years experience at PwC. He is a practicing audit partner, Head of Public Policy for the Audit practice and a member of the firm’s Audit Executive.

Sotiris has a broad range of experience having worked with large FTSE listed groups through to US registrants, private equity portfolio companies and large family businesses. He has experience leading the audits of a number of the largest and more complex organisations that PwC audits across a range of sectors including aviation, retail and consumer, business services, engineering and construction and industrial products. The public interest entities that Sotiris has worked with include Heathrow Airport, Intertek, Smiths Group, Burberry, British American Tobacco, G4S and a number of the UK’s largest Housing Associations.

Sotiris has held a number of other roles including responsibility for leading the PwC Audit practice in Reading. He also leads PwC’s Professional Qualifications team, with a keen focus on developing the skills and capabilities for future finance leaders, and is also a member of the Learning and Education Board of the ICAEW.