Invest in Finland
Functions
Finland takes leadership role in international finance policy auditing
25/09/2009
Finnish financial policy expertise has received international recognition with the appointment of Finnish officials to lead the EU’s top auditing body, as well as the international Task force on Global Financial Crises.
The National Audit Office of Finland has been invited to lead the external evaluation of EU’s financial policies. This week the National Audit Office of Finland has been hosting a high level meeting of the EU’s top auditors. The meeting has resulted in the formation of two important cooperation bodies for the audit offices: the EU Supreme Audit Institutions’ Network of Fiscal Policy Audit and the EU Supreme Audit Institutions’ Network of Lisbon Strategy Audit. The networks will strengthen the monitoring of the EU’s public finances.
Tuomas Pöysti, Auditor General of Finland, and Tytti Yli-Viikari, Vice-president of the National Audit Office of Finland, have been invited to lead the Network of Fiscal Policy Audit, with Dr Heidi Silvennoinen, principal performance auditor at the National Audit Office of Finland taking the role of chief advisor.
Yli-Viikari and Silvennoinen have also been invited to lead the work of the Task Force on Global Financial Crises, established by the United States in the context of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions. The task force of 25 countries is looking at how to mitigate the effects of the economic crisis and how to the prevent such crises occurring in the future. Other Finnish experts will also be participating in the work of the task force.
Source: YLE Uutiset and National Audit Office of Finland
Latest news
