Urgent Issues Task Force

The UITF's membership is as follows.

Chairman (Non-voting)
Ian Mackintosh		Chairman, ASB

Technical Director
Michelle Crisp		Project Director, ASB

Members
Tim Bush		Director, Hermes Focus Asset Management Ltd
Kathryn Cearns		Consultant Accountant, Herbert Smith LLP
Peter Chidgey		Partner, BDO Stoy Hayward LLP
Una Curtis		Professional Standards Director, KPMG, Dublin
Matthew Curtis		Director, Ernst & Young LLP
Howard Evans		Formerly Finance Director, Misys plc
Bill Hicks		Director, External Financial Reporting, AstraZeneca plc
Peter Holgate		Senior Accounting Technical Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Marian MacBryde		Director, Makinson Cowell Limited
John McDonnell		Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dublin
Geoffrey Mitchell		Mizuho International plc
Christopher Nunn		Formerly Professional Standards Partner, Andersen
Veronica Poole		Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Brian Shearer		Technical Partner, Grant Thornton UK LLP
Andrew Vials		Partner, KPMG LLP

Observers
David Tyrall		Director, Accounting Policy, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Secretary
Simon Peerless		Secretary, ASB

The UITF's composition and procedures are laid out in the Foreword to UITF Abstracts