About the Committee
The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations is established as a subsidiary body of the General Assembly to serve in an expert advisory capacity and to assist the General Assembly in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities.
Members of the Committee are appointed in their personal capacity and are independent of the Government that nominated them. The Committee is also independent of the Board of Auditors, the Joint Inspection Unit and the United Nations Secretariat. The Committee comprises an exceptional group of senior level experts with financial, audit and/or other oversight-related activities. The Committee will be responsible for advising the General Assembly on the scope, results and effectiveness of audit and other oversight functions, especially the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS); on measures to ensure management’s compliance with audit and other oversight recommendations; and on various risk management, internal control, operational and accounting and disclosure issues.
Based on the recommendations of the General Assembly’s Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) and with due regard being paid to equitable geographic representation, in November 2007, the Assembly elected five members (General Assembly decision 62/413, 15 November 2007), three of whom will serve a three-year term of office and two of whom will serve a four-year term of office, all beginning on 1 January 2008.
The three-year appointees are: The four-year appointees are: