Bernhard Schatz has more than 13 years of experience in the public administration in Austria where he held positions at the Austrian Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the Austrian Court of Audit (CoA). At the MoF he was part of a team introducing comprehensive budget reform including IPSAS, where he specialised in public financial management and topics such as budget management, fiscal risk management, accrual accounting and reporting. Afterwards he served as a senior expert for accounting and auditing standards at the CoA.
He has served 6 years as a member of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB). He is currently PwC’s Austria Public Sector and Sustainability Reporting Leader. Among other functions he serves as a member of the Sustainability Reference Group to the IPSASB, as observer to the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and as a Technical Advisory Committee member to the World Bank’s PULSAR program.