Director, Practice Monitoring
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Sha Ali Khan is Director – Regulatory Development at ACCA, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He has over 25 years of experience in the regulation of the accounting profession in Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. Currently, Sha is responsible for the provision of advice and guidance on regulatory matters to other professional bodies, regulators, governments and ACCA’s market directors. He also leads donor funded international consulting projects on strengthening the regulation of the profession. Until 2015, Sha was responsible for all aspects of ACCA’s quality assurance programme which covers 2,400 firms licenced by ACCA to conduct company audit work in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He has also been responsible for the provision of quality assurance services to several other professional bodies and regulators in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean to enable them to comply with IFAC’s membership obligation on quality assurance, SMO1 and/or the EU Statutory Audit Directive.