Mario Abela

Mario Abela is a Director in the Redefining Value program at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), where he leads projects aimed at transforming performance management, governance, assurance and internal control to make sustainability an integral part of mainstream business and investor decision-making. Mario is also part of the Faculty for the WBCSD's Leadership Programme, which is run in conjunction with Yale University.  Mario is a CPA and Chartered Management Accountant.  Mario's expertise is in corporate reporting and he has held senior management positions in both the private and public sectors in Australia, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the US, including senior compliance roles in government.  He has extensive regulatory and standard setting experience.  Mario is a visiting professor at IESEG School of Management in Paris where he teaches in the Masters in Accounting, Audit and Control programme.  He is also an expert advisor to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on corporate reporting.  Mario is currently completed a PhD on corporate reporting and business models at Queen Mary, University of London. Mario is also a member of the research committee at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland and a regular presenter at the United Nation's Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR).