PROFILE – Auditor-General
Des Pearson
BBus, GradDip Mgt, FIPAA, FCPA, FAIM, FCA
Phone: 61 3 8601 7101
Email:
ag@audit.vic.gov.au
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Mr Pearson was appointed Auditor-General of Victoria on 1
October 2006. He was previously Auditor-General of Western
Australia
(1991–2006).
Mr Pearson commenced his public service career in 1970 as a
graduate Cadet Auditor with the Commonwealth Australian
Auditor-General’s Office and progressed through a range of field
auditor positions in Brisbane and Canberra to become Chief Auditor,
Northern Territory Region in 1976.
From 1979 to 1988 he worked with the Australian Department of
Primary Industries and Energy as Assistant Secretary, Corporate
Resources and later as Senior Assistant Director with the
Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service of that
Department.
Mr Pearson was the Associate Director, Corporate Services with the
Canberra Institute of Technology from 1988 to 1991. During that
period he acted for extended periods as Director of the
Institute.
Mr Pearson has been an involved member of CPA Australia, the
Institute of Public Administration and the Australian Institute of
Management having served all three bodies as WA President and at
National Board level. He was CPA Australia's National President in
2001. He was elected a National Fellow of the Institute of Public
Administration in 2002 and a Life Member of CPA Australia in
2003.
He was a Convenor of the Australasian Council of Auditors
General from 1997–1999, a member of the Auditing and Assurance
Standards Board from 1997–2000, and a member of the Australian
Accounting Standards Board from 2005–2008.
Mr Pearson is a Life Member and Fellow of CPA Australia, a National
and Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration
Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.