Chair
Andrew van der Burgh was first appointed as a member of the Accounting Standards Board in 2021 and was elected as the Chair in 2024.
Andrew became a member of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board in January 2023. He was nominated by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).
Andrew is an academic at the University of Pretoria, where he is responsible for the Chartered Accountancy programme and lecturing financial reporting. He is involved in accounting policy research with a specific focus on disclosures.
Prior to joining the university, Andrew was a senior manager in the Deloitte Africa Accounting Technical Desk. He has been contributing to the establishment of accounting standards as a member of committees of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) and the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) of South Africa.
Andrew is the Chair of the ASB which develops public sector accounting standards for South Africa.
Andrew graduated from the University of Pretoria with an MCom Accounting Sciences in 2013 and received his CA(SA) designation from the SAICA in 2012.