Peter Clark is a Technical Director at the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). He joined the IASB’s predecessor, the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), as a senior project manager in 1994. In that role, he managed several IASB and IASC projects, including Insurance Contracts, First-time Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs), Employee Benefits and Income Taxes. He now has particular responsibility for the IASB’s project to enhance its conceptual framework.
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in London, he spent four years in Luxembourg, initially with Fiduciaire Générale du Luxembourg and then with KPMG. He returned to London in 1989 as a Senior Technical Manager at Clark Whitehill, where he was responsible for monitoring developments in accounting, auditing and company law.
He wrote the volume on Luxembourg in the ICAEW sponsored series European Financial Reporting (Routledge 1994).