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ICAS Aileen Beattie Memorial Lecture
The second ICAS Aileen Beattie Memorial Lecture was held in London on 1 April 2008. It was given by John Griffith-Jones, Chairman and Senior Partner of KPMG UK, and was entitled "Towards an even Better Profession". The full text is available here.
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Aileen Beattie was Secretary of SART (SATER’s predecessor) from November 2000 until December 2004. She was also Technical Director and then Executive Director, Technical Policy at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) over a period of almost twenty years. After a long battle with cancer, borne with characteristic bravery and good humour, Aileen died in October 2005.
Over her time at ICAS, Aileen co-ordinated and contributed to a number of major projects and publications, including the landmark publications Making Corporate Reports Valuable and Auditing into the Twenty-First Century, and the International Capital Markets Group publication Who Holds The Reins?, an international comparison of corporate governance.
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John Griffith-Jones qualified as a chartered accountant in 1978 and worked for KPMG as an auditor until 1987 when he transferred to help set up their corporate finance practice. He ran that practice in the UK and Europe from 1998 until June 2002 when he was promoted to be KPMG’s Chief Executive Officer in the UK.
In 2006, he became UK Chairman and Senior Partner and, later that year, agreed with his German counterpart to merge the UK and German KPMG firms, with a view to further European firms joining subsequently and to form an integrated KPMG Europe.
On 1 October 2007, he became Joint Chairman of KPMG Europe LLP.
The first lecture was held in February 2007 when Sir Robert Smith, a Past President of ICAS, presented a talk entitled “Business & Society: A Sustainable Relationship”.
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Aileen Beattie
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