Audit Committee

Chairman

Petr Kříž is a consulting partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he has been working at senior management positions since 1991. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Business at the University of Economics in Prague and the British ACCA professional training. He focuses on audits and consulting for banks and other financial institutions, areas of accounting methodology, regulation, public policy and macroeconomics. Between 2001 and 2004, he held the position of the President of the Chamber of Auditors of the Czech Republic and in 2015 and 2016 also the President of Accountacy Europe (Federation of European Accounting Auditors). Petr Kříž is the recipient of the 2008 ACCA Annual Award for the Development of the Finance and Accounting Profession in Europe. Currently, he is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Charles University, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Economics in Prague, a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Finance and Accounting of the University of Economics in Prague, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Transparency International Czech Republic, and a member of the working group for the preparation of the new Accounting Act at the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic.

Member

Barbora Janíčková graduated from the University of Economics in Prague, majoring in International Business with a focus on Development Studies. She started her career at Deloitte, where she worked as a senior consultant in the consulting department specializing in public administration until 2012. Subsequently, she worked as a senior consultant at ČSOB Advisory, where she focused on public administration, financial management, control and audit consulting. In 2014, she joined the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic as Head of the Financial Management Harmonization Department. Since 2016, she has been the Director of the Central Harmonisation Unit, which is responsible for legislation and methodology of financial management, management controls and internal audit in public administration bodies.

Member

He graduated from the University of Economics in Prague. He began his career as an auditor immediately after his studies at Deloitte, in which he became a partner in 2000 and dealt with leading the audit team, contact with clients and the application of auditing or accounting regulations. In addition, he has worked on other accounting projects. He also worked briefly as an audit manager at Coopers & Lybrand. He left Deloitte in 2015 and holds a position on the audit committee of several companies, such as ZOOT a. s. (2017–2020) or Raiffeisenbank a. s. (since 2016) He has been a member of the Chamber of Auditors of the Czech Republic since 1997, between 2004 and 2010 he also acted in its supervisory commission. Since 2018 he is in the executive committee.