Iheanyi Anyahara

Biography

Dr. Anyahara has over three decades of industry experience, of which more than 20 years have been in financial reporting and management, accounting standard setting and financial reporting regulation at the Financial Reporting Council (erstwhile Nigerian Accounting Standards Board). He acted as the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria during a 14 months interregnum (March 1, 2020, to May 18, 2021) when he was charged with responsibility for steering the agency to maintain the steady oversight of financial reporting nationwide. He is currently the Coordinating Director/Head, Directorates of Accounting Standards (Public & Private Sectors) and Sustainability Reporting Unit at the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria.

He has played several leadership roles in the local and global accounting profession due to his readiness for service when called upon. He served as a member of Inter-Ministerial Committee on National Chart of Accounts for Nigeria as well as member of the IPSAS GAP analysis Committee. He was the Secretary to the National Stakeholders’ Committee on the Roadmap to the Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Nigeria.

Dr. Anyahara is member of several professional bodies among which are Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Fellow, Association of Forensic Accounting Researchers and Nigerian Institute of Management. He serves as a resource person to both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and Association of National Accountants of Nigeria. Iheanyi is a member of the ICAN’s Corporate Reporting faculty.

He played a role as Technical Advisor to Christopher Nyong – International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board member during his tenure. He is presently Technical Advisor to Yacuoba Traore, International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board member. He is currently the Chair, Adoption Readiness Working Group (ARWG) for sustainability reporting in Nigeria.

Dr. Anyahara’s incurable passion for credible financial reporting is the driving force for his commitment to a profession he regards as a sacred calling for the greater good, and in which he expresses passionate solemnity in practice. This privilege to serve in the SAC aligns with his passion of seeing accounting continue to maintain its historical roles as an instrumentality of development in society. Therefore, his interest aligns with his passion of using accounting as developmental tool nationally and globally.