Continued assignments in the Swedish National Audit Office's Scientific Council and Examination Council
Ahead of the first meetings of the year, Peter Öhman has been appointed member of the Swedish National Audit Office's Scientific Council for a fifth term and a member of the Swedish National Audit Office's Examination Council for a second term. The assignments extend until 2027 and 2028 respectively.
As a leading audit researcher, Peter Öhman was elected to the Scientific Council in 2018, together with, among others, John Hassler, Professor of Economics at Stockholm University and Chairman of the Committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Since then, CER's centre director has assisted the Swedish National Audit Office with advice and commented on various parts of the agency's activities. The council for the coming period also includes Karin Bäckstrand, professor of environmental social science research at Stockholm University; Maria Bratt Börjesson, Professor of Economics at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute KTH; Frida Pemer, Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Stockholm School of Economics; Vilhelm Persson, Professor of Law at Lund University; Helena Wockelberg, Professor of Political Science at Uppsala University and Olof Åslund, Professor of Economics at Uppsala University.
The assignment as one of two external members of the Examination Council is to, together with other experts in government accounting and auditing, ensure the quality of the annual audit's test activities. External member is also Torbjörn Tagesson, Professor of Business Administration at Linköping University and Head of Secretariat for the Council for Municipal Accounting (RKR).
"It is an honour to be entrusted as a CER employee to assist the Swedish National Audit Office in these matters for such a long time," comments Peter Öhman.
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