EDWIN MAKORI

CPA Edwin Makori is a passionate, high performing, leader with broad managerial experience in Leading teams, Strategy, Finance, Business Development, Innovation, and IT. A solid business executive with ability to lead and motivate ordinary people to achieve excellence. Inspires individuals and teams to deliver world class performance in their organizations.
He has over the time built the capability to collaborate with and inspire teams to deliver extra-ordinary results, transform organizations and impact society positively with scale to grow balance sheet (statement of financial position) and P&L (statement of income) positions with an entrepreneurial spirit.
He is the team lead of the 5th largest professional accountancy organization and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK). He oversees the technical issues, accounting and auditing standards, ethical standards regulation, compliance, audit quality monitoring (assurance), registration, public policy and governance and research. CPA Makori has been a Lecturer in the School of Business at Egerton University and Nairobi University, Kenya. At the University, he focused on Strategy, Finance and accounting work. He has previously practiced as an auditor in a renowned audit firm and also served as a Finance Director at various government (public sector) entities and private sector and held senior management positions in many other organizations.
CPA Makori has an undergraduate degree in Commerce (Finance and Accounting) and an MBA in Finance from the University of Nairobi. He is also a certified ERP Consultant, CISA, a member of Institute of Directors (IoD), ISACA and ILM (Institute of Leadership
Management).
CPA Makori served in the board of Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examination Board (kasneb) and serves regionally in the Interim Oversight Board (IOB) for African Professionalization Initiative-Africa, Africa Integrated Reporting Council (AIRC) and the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) where he serves as a technical advisor. He has also served on several other boards Internationally and locally including the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB).