New Heads of SAIs

Dr. Anwar Nasution has been appointed Chairman of the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia for the period of 2004-2009, replacing Dr. Satrio Budihardjo Joedono.

Anwar Nasution is Professor of Economics and former Dean at the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia in Jakarta. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Tufts University, Medford, Masschusetts, USA in 1982. As a consultant to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), UN-ESCAP and UN-ECLAC, he has dealt with and published on applied macro-economics monetary economics, public finance, industrialization managing capital inflows to emerging economics in the 1990s, conducted by the World Institute for Development Economic Research (WIDER) of the United Nations University in Helsinki when he visited it as the Sasakawa distinguished professor in Development Policy during 1995-1996. As a researcher, he has visited many institutions including ISEAS (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), IDE (International Development Economic), Kyoto University, Research School of Pacific Studies of Australian National University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Before being appointed as Chairman of the Audit Board, Dr. Anwar Nasution was the Senior Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia, the central bank.

The Chairman and Members of the Seven-person Board are elected by Parliament, appointed by Presidential Decree, and sworn in by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Other members elected to the Board are Mr. Abdullah Zainie (Vice Chairman), Mr. Imran, Mr. Baharuddin Aritonang, Mr. Hasan Bisri, Inspector General of Police Mr. Udju Djuhari, and Mr. I Gusti Agung Rai.

For more information contact Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan, JI. Jend.
Gatot Subroto Kav.31, Jakarta,
Indonesia, fax: 62-21-572-0944
e-mail: lo_international@bpk.go.id

Dr. Mohammad Reza Rahimi was officially appointed as the new President of the Supreme Audit Court of Iran on the 1st November 2004. He was born in Ghorveh, Iran in 1954 and besides having studied law and obtained a Ph.D degree, he has had the following designations:

Ghorveh provincial Public Prosecutor

1. Magistrate of the Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office.

2. Deputy Governor of Ghorveh

3. Chairman of the First Ghorveh City Council

4. Governor of Sanandadj - Four years

5. Member of the Second Parliament _ representative of Ghorveh

6. Member of the Third Parliament _ representative of Ghorveh

7. Member of the Fourth Parliament - representative of Sanandadj, Kamyaran,and Divandareh

8. Member of the Board of Governors at the Fourth Parliament and head of the Greece and Iran collaboration group.

9. BoG (Board of Governors) member of the Parliamentary Committees during the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Parliament _ The Judiciary and legal Committee, and the Foreign Policy Committee.

10. President of the Iranian Athletics Federation

11. Member of the BoG of the National Olympics Committee.

12. Member of the Asian Athletics Technical committee.

13. Governor of Kurdistan province _Recognized as the model Governor the same year.

14. Councillor of the Head of the Iranian Judiciary.

15. Head of the Tehran Azad Law faculty

16. Distinguished Lawyer of the Islamic Republic Iran

17. President of the Supreme Audit Court of Iran

Dr. Rahimi is married and has two children.

Name: Dr Abdul Basit Turki Saeed

Date of birth: 1953

Education

Graduate from College of Administration & Economy.

MSC. In public finance - the title of research is financial planning in Iraq by public budget for the state .

Ph.D. in the Financial & Monetary. The title of research is the monetary effects of the financial policy in Iraq.

The occupied positions:

• An employee in Ministry of foreign affairs till 1979
  
  
• An employee in Ministry of Finance-Budget office till 30/8/2003.
  
  
• Minister of Human Rights from 1/9/2003 till 9/4/2004
  
  
• President of Board of Supreme Audit since 13/10/2004
  

Name: Mr. Norchai Sripimol

Present Position: Chairman of the State Audit Commission

Education:

• MBA (Finance), Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA.
  
  
• Bachelor Degree (Accounting), Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
  
  
• Graduated "The Joint State-Private Sectors Course", National Defence College.

• Audit Commissioner
  
  
• Deputy Director, the Bureau of the Budget.
  
  
• Advisor to the Bureau of the Budget.
  
  
• Assistant Director, the Bureau of the Budget.
  
  
• Director, Office of the Budget Reform.
  
  
• Chairman, the Advisory Committee on the Government IT Procurement.
  
  
• Advisor to the Committee on budget, the Senate.
  
  
• Expert to the Policy and Budgeting Evaluation Committee, the House of Representatives.
  
  
• Board of Directors,
  
  
  • Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand,
    
    
  • Expressway and Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand,
    
    
  • New Bangkok International Airport Co. Ltd.,
    
    
  • Playing Cards Factory, Excise Department.