Speaker Profiles WGEI members Meeting 2019

Mr. Michael G. Aguinaldo

Chairperson of the Commission on Audit of the Philippines

Honorable Michael G. Aguinaldo was appointed as Chairperson of the Commission on Audit, the Philippine Supreme Audit Institution (SAI), on 24th March 2015. Chairperson Aguinaldo is also currently the External Auditor of the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Labour Organization of the United Nations. He is a lawyer with extensive legal, governance and administration expertise acquired from 25 years of professional work as a private law practitioner, government official and professor.

As head of the Philippine SAI, Chairperson Aguinaldo leads the Commission on a seven-year Strategic Plan that centres on six Strategic Goals that will help improve various facets of the organization in order to create a positive impact in governance and society; empower and enable government agencies to perform their mandates more efficiently and effectively; deliver high quality, fair and timely audits; increase stakeholder ownership and understanding; strengthen capacity and capability; and enhance support infrastructure.

Mr. Jose A. Fabia

Commissioner of the Commission on Audit of the Philippines

Honorable Jose A. Fabia was appointed Commissioner to the Commission on Audit of the Philippines on 2 May 2014. He is a lawyer with 31 years of experience in law, management, governance issues, business, communications, and healthcare. During his career in the government service, he has served as the Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Department of Health, Municipal Mayor of Binmaley, Pangasinan, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, and Director-General of the Philippine Information Agency, among others.

During his term in Commission of Audit, Commissioner Fabia helped spearhead the refinement of the Commission’s 2016-2022 Strategic Plan. Among others, he advocated for the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geo-tagging as audit tools in monitoring public works projects to deter ghost projects.

Mr. Saurav Kumar Jaipuriyar

Representative of the Chair INTOSAI Knowledge Services and Knowledge Sharing Committee (KSC)

Mr. Saurav Kumar Jaipuriyar belongs to the 1992 batch of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service. He is presently working as the Principal Accountant General (Audit-I), Maharashtra at Mumbai. He has been a student of economics from Delhi University, Delhi. He has vast experience of 27 years in auditing various sectors in India such as defence, telecommunications, state government institutions and extractive industries.

Mr. Jaipuriyar has also served as Principal Director of External Audit at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he was auditing various Indian missions and public sector undertakings in East and South East Asia. He has also conducted a number of international audits such as Food and Agricultural Organisation, Rome, World Health Organisation, Burkina Faso and United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs at Geneva and New York. He has been extensively trained in different aspects of auditing, including Information Technology Audit training at the United Kingdom National Audit Office.

As regards audit of extractive industries, Mr. Jaipuriyar has vast experience in auditing the coal and oil and gas sectors in India. He has experience in auditing some of the biggest coal and oil and gas companies in India and the world such as Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries and Oil India Limited.

Mr. Sydney Asubo

Executive Director Financial Intelligence Authority of Uganda

In 2014 Mr. Sydney Asubo was appointed Executive Director of the Financial Intelligence Authority, the agency responsible for monitoring, investigating and preventing money laundering, terrorism financing and proliferation in Uganda. As the first Executive Director, Mr. Asubo was instrumental in establishing the agency and setting up its operational structures.
Mr. Asubo previously served as the Director Legal Services at the Inspectorate of Government, and as a Prosecutor at the Directorate of Public Prosecution.

Mr. Edmond Shoko

Technical Manager for Regularity Audit, AFROSAI-E

Mr. Edmond Bongimosa Shoko is a South African national, a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and a Fellow Certified Chartered Accountant (FCCA). Mr. Shoko is currently seconded by the Office of the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) as a Technical Manager to AFROSAI-E in charge of Regularity Audit. Through direct participation in various INTOSAI subcommittees and working groups Mr. Shoko has amassed a global understanding of the extractive industries playing field within which Auditing and Accounting Institutions operate. Through AFROSAI-E Mr. Shoko has facilitated and undertaken research work on Illicit Financial Flows in the extractive industries.

Mr. Lewis Hawke

Lead Governance Specialist, East Asia and Pacific World Bank

Mr. Lewis Hawke has been based in the Philippines since February 2018 after a decade in USA and Europe advising governments across all continents on public financial management. Before moving to Manila he was Head of the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Secretariat, a global initiative for assessing and strengthening public financial management performance from November 2014.

Mr. Hawke has designed and implemented public sector financial management reform initiatives for more than 3 decades. This included almost 20 years as a senior official in the Australian Government Department of Finance and UK Treasury where he contributed to leading edge developments such as accrual and performance budgeting, privatization, public agency governance, service quality, integrated reporting and public sector accountability.

Mr. Hawke is now focusing on supporting the Philippine government to strengthen their public financial management arrangements, especially in the areas of public investment and budget management, audit and review.

Ms. Teresa S. Habitan

Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance Philippines, and Alternate Focal Person, Philippines-EITI

Ms. Teresa S. Habitan is an Assistant Secretary at the Department of Finance. Her work covers fiscal policy and planning initiatives, with focus on the tax reform program, revenue forecasting, and fiscal programming. She also briefs credit rating agencies, international fund managers and investment bankers on current developments in the fiscal sector and tax reform package. She also chairs the Multi-stakeholder Group of the Philippines Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative.

Ms. Habitan has previously done work on issues relation to government corporations, privatization matters, and microfinance policy.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Development Studies (Economic Policy and Planning) from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Economics.

Mr. Abdulrahman Saoud Aladba

Head of Financial Audit & Examination of Energy and industry section, State Audit Bureau of Qatar

Mr. Abdulrahman Saoud Aladba has over 12 years audit experience with the State Audit Bureau of Qatar where he currently serves as the head of the Financial Audit & Examination of Energy and Industry Section.

Engr. Romualdo Aguilas

Chief of Staff, Mines and Geosciences Bureau Philippines

Engr Romualdo Aguilas is the Head Executive Assistant to the Director of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau. He has worked in the bureau for 35 years, and previously served as the Officer in charge of mineral economics in the public division.

Engr Aguilas holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mineral Engineering.

Mr. Trygve Christiansen

Senior Advisor Office of the Auditor General of Norway

Mr. Trygve Christiansen is the Head of the Petroleum Audit Programme in the International Division of the Office of the Auditor General of Norway where he has worked for 10 years.

Mr. Christiansen has participated in extractive industries capacity building initiatives in the Supreme Audit Institutions of South Sudan, Zambia, Tanzania and Myanmar. He previously worked with the AFROSAI-E Secretariat as a regularity audit expert and was involved in developing guidance materials.

Ms. Carmelita O. Antasuda

Director IV- Local Government Sector Commission on Audit of the Philippines

Ms. Carmelita O. Antasuda is a Certified Public Accountant by profession. At present, she holds the Director IV position for the Local Government Sector of the Philippine Commission on Audit.

Ms. Antasuda represents the Commission in the Technical Working Group of the Philippine Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative. She is also the Commission’s focal person for the INTOSAI Working Group on Audit of Extractive Industries (WGEI).

Ms. Marites A. Odtojan

State Auditor V- Corporate Government Sector Commission on Audit of the Philippines

Ms. Marites A. Odtojan is a Certified Public Accountant by profession. She is a State Auditor V and currently assigned as the Supervising Auditor of cluster 6- social, cultural, trading and other services in the Corporate Government Sector.

Ms. Odtojan was formerly the Regional Supervising Auditor of the National Government Sector, Clusters 6 and 8 – health and sciences, agriculture and environment. She has participated in several United Nations and embassy audits.

She has a Doctorate in Philosophy, and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration majoring in accounting

Mr. Hany Hafez Mohamed Gad El Gamal

General Director Accountability State Authority of Egypt

Mr. Hany Hafez Mohamed Gad El Gamal has 26 years of audit experience in the Accountability State Authority of Egypt where he currently holds the position of General Director. He has extensive knowledge in the extractive industry in which he has worked since 2005.

Mr. El Gamal is a member of the Association of Accountants and Auditors of Egypt. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration.

Mr. Alexander Malden

Governance Associate Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)

Mr. Alexander Malden has specialised in global advocacy for mandatory disclosure by companies of payments they make to governments and support to oversight institutions to use this information for accountability purposes.

Mr. Malden has provided training to Supreme Audit Institutions, media and EITI stakeholders on how to use company data to monitor revenue collection in their countries. He has also facilitated at the NRGI Anglo-African summer school on the use of revenue data for accountability.

Prior to joining NRGI, Mr Malden worked as a resource policy consultant connecting governance and transparency for organisations such as the European Bank, GIZ and World Bank.