Dr. Kati Beiersdorf, CPA is currently Technical Director at the Accounting Standards Committee of Germany (DRSC) where she is working in the area of sustainability reporting. Previously she was a member of the German Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel. Former work experience includes Project Leader in the International Reporting Group of RBS (now Mazars), Project Management at the DRSC and internal auditing in a bank. She also served in the IASB international working group for Small and Medium-sized Entities (SMEs), and EFRAG European working group on that topic. Dr. Beiersdorf received her Diploma from the Humboldt Universität Berlin, holds a doctoral degree from the Technische Universität Berlin (with a thesis on Sustainability Reporting) and is a CPA licensed in Washington State, USA.