Panelist

Mr. Neri Bukspan

Neri Bukspan has over 20 years of accounting and financial reporting experience as well as risk, operations, credit, governance and regulatory implementation experience. Neri advises clients on addressing the impact of accounting, reporting, corporate disclosures and regulatory changes. He is also a global client service partner at EY for two large multinational companies.

Previously, Bukspan was an Executive Managing Director at Standard and Poor’s where he served as the firm's Chief Quality Officer, Chief Risk Officer and Chief Accountant. He was a member of S&P’s Executive Committee and its Analytical Policy Board and chaired its Policy Governance Committee. Bukspan managed the Global Accounting and the Corporate Governance Research Groups supporting the firm’s analysts. He joined S&P in 2002 as its Chief Accountant after serving in EY’s Professional Accounting Practice.

Bukspan has served as a member of the FASB’s Advisory Council (FASAC), the PCAOB’s Standing Advisory Group, the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the AICPA, the IASB’s Advisory Committee and the IASB's Capital Markets Advisory Committee and as a chair of the FASB’s Investors Advisory Committee. He also serves on the joint IASB/FASB Lease Accounting and the FASB’s Disclosure Framework Advisory Groups and has authored numerous publications on the analytical implications of financial reporting.

Bukspan is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School of New York and is a member of the Economic Club of New York.

Bukspan is a CPA licensed in New York and California. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University, an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Business and a Master’s in Taxation from the USC Marshall School of Business. He is an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business.