Mr. Li Jinhua, was born in Rudong County of Jiangsu Province in July, 1943. Mr. Li joined the Chinese Communist Party in June, 1965 and started work in September, 1966. He graduated from the Central University of Finance and Banking, Mr. Li has been a senior auditor and guest professor of the Nankai University for many years.
Mr. Li has held the following positions:
University lecturer, China North-west Institute of Finance and Economics, 1968-1971,
Accountant, Financial Team Leader, Deputy Workshop Chief, Deputy Director of the Factory Political Department, Deputy Secretary of the Factory Party Committee to Factory President, 572 Factory of the Ministry of Aviation, 1971-1985;
Director General, Economic and Trade Office, Shanxi Province, 1985;
Deputy Auditor General, National Audit Office of the People's Republic of China, 1985-1998;
Auditor General, National Audit Office of the People's Republic of China, since March, 1998;
Mr. Li Jinhua is a member of the 14th Central Disciplinary Committee and 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Professor M. Kamil Mutluer was elected by the Turkish Grand National Assembly (Parliament) as President of the Court of Accounts on 29 April, 1998. He succeeds Mr. M. Vecdi Gonul who completed his seven-year term of office as President and continues to serve as a Court Member on the Third Chamber of the Court of Accounts.
Mr. Mutluer graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science of the Marmara University in 1959 and in 1967 graduated from the Law Faculty of the Ankara University; he completed his doctorate programme in 1971. In 1974 he became an Associate Professor and in 1980 obtained his professorship. From 1971 to 1982 he taught public finance, state budgeting, public debts and tax law at Anadolu University.
Professor Mutluer has held a variety of senior academic positions since 1982, when he was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Hacettepe University. In 1986 the President of the Republic appointed him as a Member of the Higher Education Council.
Prior to his election, Professor Mutluer was the Deputy President of the Baskent University in Ankara and at the same time was the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the same University.
Mr Mark M. Wani, MBE, has been appointed Auditor-General of Papua New Guinea, succeeding Sir Mr. Makena V. Geno, KBE, CBE. The appointment became effective on 19 January 1998. Prior to his appointment, he served as Deputy Auditor-General.
Mr Mark Wani, having graduated with a degree in Accountancy from the University of Technology, Papua New Guinea, joined the office of the Auditor-General in 1984 and has served in various capacities rising to the position of Deputy Auditor General. He has also acted for the Auditor-General on several occasions.
He was awarded a scholarship to do his Master of Business Administration Program in Australia which he successfully completed in 1993 at the Central Queensland University, Rockhampton. He was also attached to General Accounting Office of United States for six months in 1991 under the International Auditor Fellowship Program organised by the International Organizations of Supreme Audit Institutions which he successfully completed and attained his International Auditor Fellowship.
In assuming his new duties, he commits himself to give full support to ASOSAI and INTOSAI activities.
Dr. Eliezer Goldberg was elected by the Knesset (Parliament) as State Comptroller and Ombudsman of the State of Israel on May 26, 1998. He succeeds Ms. Miriam Ben-Porat who had served in that position from 1988 until 1998.
Dr. Goldberg served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1984 until the time of his present appointment. From 1974 to 1982 he served as a judge of the District Court of Jerusalem and from 1965 to 1974 as a judge of the Magistrate Court in Jerusalem. He studied law at the Hebrew University School of Law in Law in Jerusalem and was awarded the Israel Bar Association licence to practice law in 1957.
Born on 29th September, 1934, in Chinan, Chonbuk, Korea, Mr. Seung-hun was appointed as Chairman, Board of Audit & Inspection by the President on March 3, 1998.
He is Bachelor of Arts from Chonbuk National University in Chonju, Korea majoring in Political Science. He was conferred Honorary Doctor of Jursiprudence by Chonbuk National University in Chonju, Korea in 1995. He passed the 8th Judiciary Examination in 1957.
Before being appointed as Chairman, Board of Audit & Inspection, Korea he served many coveted positions prominent among which are he served as Judge advocate, Korean Army, Public prosecutor, Ministry of Justice, Seoul District Public Prosecutor's Office etc.. He was an Executive member of the Freedom -Practicing Writers' Council, Member of the Human Rights Committee, the National Council of Churches of Korea, Executive Board Member, of the Korean Section of Amnesty International in 1979. In 1994 he was a Member of the Press Arbritration Commission. He was also a visiting professor at the College of Law, Chonbuk National University in Chonju, Korea.
Miss Thinn Thinn, was promoted as Director General, succeeding Ms. Kin Than Tin on 5 February, 1998.
In 1959, immediately after she gained academic Degree of Bachelor of Arts and professional certificate of Certified Public Accountant, she began her career as a Senior Auditor at the Directorate of Commercial Audit, a government audit branch under the Auditor General of Burma. She had worked in the audit branch in various capacities ranging from Senior Auditor to Deputy Director General.
Mrs. Georghadji was born in July 1956, in Famagusta, where she lived until 1974. She now resides at Limassol, Cyprus, with her husband and two children.
Having studied economics at the University of Athens, she continued her studies, with emphasis in econometrics, at the University of Southampton in the U.K. After appointment in 1981 as an economic officer at the Ministry of Finance, in Cyprus, she obtained a scholarship from the Fullbright Commission and took her Masters degree in economics from the University of Chicago, in the USA.
Since 1991, when she was promoted to the post of Senior Economic Officer, in the Finance and Investments Division of the Ministry, she has been responsible for matters relating to the financial sector, generally, and, in particular, the insurance subsector. In 1995, while maintaining her post at the Ministry, she was appointed as Assistant Superintendent of Insurance and had the responsibility of heading the Service for the Supervision of Insurance Companies in Cyprus.
She was also the Deputy Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cyprus for the period 1993-1998.
On 1.12.1998 she was appointed by the President of the Republic of Cyprus as Auditor General of the Republic.