- John Thomas
John Richard Thomas (8 March 1897 - 4 July 1968) was a British Labour Party politician of Welsh provenance, and a Chartered Accountant. He was Member of Parliament for Dover from 1945 to 1950. He did not contest the 1950 general election, when his seat was won by the Conservative candidate John Arbuthnot.
- Jim Balsillie
James L. (Jim) Balsillie, B.Comm, MBA, LL.D, FCA was born on February 3, 1961 in Seaforth, Ontario, but raised in Peterborough, Ontario where his family relocated in 1966. He is a Chartered Accountant and co-CEO of Research In Motion. He received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. He earned an MBA from Harvard University in 1989. Jim is also a noted athlete and passionate fitness advocate.
- Brian Souter
Brian Souter (born 1954 in Perth, Scotland), is a businessman, who was the co-founder of the Stagecoach Group, along with his sister, Ann Gloag. He was educated at Perth Academy and University of Dundee, before he completed training as a Chartered Accountant. Souter has gained notoriety for his business practices, his controversial public statements, and for his attempt to block the repeal of Section 28, …
- John Watson
John Odin Wentworth Watson (born 25 January 1937) is an Australian politician who has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1978, representing the state of Tasmania. Since July 2005 he has been the longest-serving member of the Senate. Watson was born in Launceston and educated at the University of Tasmania, where he graduated in economics and accountancy.
- Ehsan Mani
Ehsan Mani was a former President of the International Cricket Council (ICC). He was born in Rawalpindi in Pakistan on March 23, 1945. He spent his early life in Pakistan playing for the Rawalpindi Club and Government College Lahore XI from 1959 to 1965 as a right-hand batsman and a left-arm fast medium bowler before moving to the United Kingdom to complete his further studies. Mani is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has resided in the UK since the late-1960s.
- Jim Mather
Jim Mather is a Scottish National Party politician, the Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Argyll and Bute. Mather was educated at Paisley Grammar School and Greenock High School before attending the University of Glasgow. Before his election to Holyrood he worked as a chartered accountant and ran his own business. He joined the SNP in 1996 and acted as the SNP’s National Treasurer from 2000.
- Blair Wilson
Blair Wilson is the Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) in the 39th Canadian parliament for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country electoral district. He was elected on January 23, 2006 in the 2006 federal election. He represents the Liberal Party of Canada. Blair Wilson is a chartered accountant, who lives in West Vancouver and owns a CA firm in North Vancouver. He is also a restaurateur who owns a restaurant in downtown Vancouver with his father and brother.
- Mark Hoban
Mark Gerard Hoban (born 31 March, 1964) is a British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Fareham. Mark Hoban was born in Durham and was educated at the city's St Leonard's Roman Catholic Comprehensive School and the London School of Economics where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in economics in 1985. He joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1985 as a financial analyst, becoming a chartered account manager in 1990, …
- Jeffrey Lucy
Jeffrey John Lucy (born November 6, 1946) is the current Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australia's Capital Markets and Corporations Regulator. He is the first non-lawyer Chairman of ASIC. Lucy has had extensive experience in the Australian business community, particularly in the Accounting Profession. He has a background as a Chartered Accountant and is also a former Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), …
- Margaret Jackson
Margaret Jackson is Chairman of FlexiGroup Limited and a director of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Billabong International Limited and Florey Neuroscience Institutes. Before beginning her career as a full time company director in 1992, she was a partner of KPMG Peat Marwick's Management Consulting Division. Ms Jackson holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University and completed an MBA with distinction at Melbourne University.
- Nigel Rudd
Sir Nigel founded Williams PLC in 1982, a company that went on to become one of the largest industrial holding companies in the United Kingdom until its demerger in November 2000, creating Chubb plc and Kidde plc.
- Michael Hirst
Sir Michael William Hirst (born 2 January 1946) is a former Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician, chartered accountant and public relations consultant. A student of Glasgow Academy and the University of Glasgow, Hirst had a career as a chartered accountant before entering politics. He was elected Member of Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden at the 1983 general election, but lost the seat to Labour's Sam Galbraith at the 1987 election.
- Mark Harper
Mark James Harper (born 26 February 1970) British politician and accountant. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Forest of Dean.
- Iain Wright
Iain David Wright (born May 9, 1972) is a British Labour politician, and Member of Parliament for Hartlepool since winning a by-election in September 2004. He resigned as Parliamentary Private Secretary for Health on 7th September 2006 Source. Wright was born in Hartlepool, has a BA and MA in History from University College London and worked as a chartered accountant for One North East before his election.
- Nick Gibb
Nicolas John "Nick" Gibb (born September 3 1960) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. As of December 2005 Gibb holds the post of Shadow Minister of State for Schools in the Official Opposition (UK) Nick Gibb was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire and was educated at the Maidstone Grammar School, Kent; the Roundhay School, Leeds; and the Thornes House School, Wakefield.
- G. Srinivasan
G. Srinivasan (born September 23, 1958 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, South India - died May 27, 2007) was a film producer who founded the independent production company "Madras Talkies", with his brother, the director and screenwriter Mani Ratnam. He produced acclaimed films such as "Iruvar" (1997), "Kannathil Muthamittal" (2002), "Aayitha Ezhuthu" (2004), "Yuva" (2004) and "Guru", released in 2007.
- Sol Kerzner
Solomon (Sol) Kerzner (born 23 August 1935) is a South African hotel and gambling magnate. Kerzner was born in Troyeville, Johannesburg, the youngest of four children to Jewish Russian immigrants. His family started a hotel chain; after Kerzner graduated as a Chartered Accountant, he took over the running of the group and went on to create the most successful hotel group in South Africa, Sun International.
- Roy Cullen
Roy Cullen, PC, MP, BA, MPA, CA (born December 31, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament for the riding of Etobicoke North in the Canadian House of Commons. He was first elected in a by-election in 1996 and was subsequently re-elected in the 1997, 2000, 2004, and 2006 general elections. He was elected and served as Chair of the Ontario Liberal Caucus from 1998 to 1999.
- Rod Anderson
Rodney J. Anderson BA (born 15 April 1935 in Toronto) is a Canadian poet, musician and Chartered Accountant. After spending decades living in Toronto, he currently lives in Cobourg, Ontario with his wife, Merike Lugus. Rod Anderson graduated from the University of Toronto in 1956 with a Chemistry degree. In 1959, he would be designated a Chartered Accountant.
- Gary Benson
Gary Benson (born 1957, in Sydney, Australia) is a professional poker player and sports bettor. Benson started playing poker during his school years, but his interest in card games was fostered at a young age by his grandmother. He attended his first live poker game in the late 1970s and has been a stalwart on the Australian and New Zealand poker scene ever since. Benson obtained a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology, Sydney in 1983, …
- Peter Bone
Peter William Bone (born October 19 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician, and MP for Wellingborough. Peter Bone was born in 1952 in Billericay and was educated at Westcliff-on-Sea High School for Boys In 1977 he was elected as a councillor to Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, where he served for nine years until 1986. He was elected as the Vice Chairman of the Southend West Conservative Association.
- Nigel Payne
Nigel Payne (born March 1960) is the former Group Chief Executive and current Executive Director of Sportingbet Plc, which operates a network of bookingmaking websites, as well as the Paradise Poker online poker room. A native of the United Kingdom, Payne has long been an outspoken critic of bans on online gambling; he appears regularly on news programs such as 60 minutes. He is an ardent supporter of legalization and regulation of the industry.
- Trevor Birch
Trevor Birch (born 1958) is an English football executive and former football player. He has principally been involved with clubs undergoing financial difficulties, and is currently chief executive of Derby County. Birch started out as a footballer and was on the books of Liverpool - he was the last player signed by Bill Shankly - but only played for the reserves and by 1979 had left the club altogether. He also had brief spells with Shrewsbury Town and Chester City, …
- Tony Trahar
Tony Trahar (born 1949 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African businessman and former chairman of Anglo American. Trahar was educated at St John's College and the University of the Witwatersrand, after which he qualified as a chartered accountant. He joined Anglo American in 1974 and later was an assistant to Gavin Relly and was appointed finance director in 1982. Trahar became the managing director of Anglo American's paper company, Mondi, in 1986.
- Peter Godsoe
Peter Cowperthwaite Godsoe, OC, MBA, LL.D, FCA (born 1938) is a Canadian businessman and former Chairman and Chief executive officer of the Bank of Nova Scotia from 1992 to 2003. He is a member of the board of directors of multiple corporations, and serves as the Chairman of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and Sobeys. Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of J. Gerald "Gerry" and Margaret (Cowperthwaite) Godsoe, …
- Mihir Bose
Mihir Bose (1947 -) is a British Indian sportswriter and journalist. He is of Bengali origin. Brought up in Bombay, he came to England in 1969 to study to become a Chartered Accountant. Bose is best known for his print and television work, having worked both for the Daily Telegraph and the BBC. As of 2007 he is sports editor of the BBC.
- Derek Brownlee
Derek Brownlee (born August 10 1974) is the Finance and Public Service Reform spokesman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, and a member of the party's Shadow Cabinet. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the South of Scotland Region since 2005. He was elected after David Mundell resigned his seat at Holyrood following his election as MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency in the 2005 General Election.
- Robert Champion de Crespigny
Robert Champion de Crespigny AC is a high-profile Australian businessman. Champion de Crespigny graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1972, graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Upon completing his studies, he practiced as a Chartered Accountant for 13 years. In 1988, Champion de Crespigny and his family moved to Adelaide, South Australia to undertake the position of Managing Director of the mining company, Normandy Mining.
- Kwadwo Baah Wiredu
Kwadwo Baah Wiredu is a Ghanaian politician and a chartered accountant. He has been a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ghana since January 1997 and has been a minister in the Kufuor government since 2001.
- Richard Haskayne
Richard (Dick) Francis Haskayne, O.C., A.O.E., B.Comm., LL.D., F.C.A., (born 1934) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Raised in Gleichen, Alberta, he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta in 1956 and became a Chartered Accountant in 1959. He spent more than twenty years with Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas becoming President in 1980. He was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Interhome Energy Inc.
- Laurent Beaudoin
Beaudoin became Chief Executive Officer of Bombardier, Inc. in 1979, rescuing it from near bankruptcy. He currently sits on the Canadian Advisory Board of the Carlyle Group. In 1973 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1988. In 1990, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
- Doug Lewis
Douglas ("Doug") Grinslade Lewis, PC, QC, FCA, LL.B (born April 17 1938) is a Canadian former politician. A chartered accountant and lawyer by training, Lewis entered the Canadian House of Commons when he won the seat of Simcoe North, Ontario, as a Progressive Conservative in the 1979 federal election. In the short-lived government of Prime Minister Joe Clark, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply and Service.
- Michael Peat
Sir Michael Charles Gerrard Peat KCVO (born November 16, 1949) was appointed as the private secretary to the Charles, Prince of Wales in 2002 and was made Principal Private Secretary to The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall in 2005. Peat was born in 1949 and is great-grandson of William Barclay Peat, founder of the accountancy firm of Peat Marwick. He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, University of Oxford, …
- Graham Love
Graham Love Chief Executive Officer Graham is a graduate of Cambridge University, and a chartered accountant. In the late Eighties he was part of the senior management team that made Shandwick plc the world's number one PR Group through a major acquisition programme involving the purchase of over 30 public relations agencies worldwide.
- John Cleghorn
John Edward Cleghorn, O.C. (born July 7, 1941) is a Canadian businessman and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Bank of Canada from 1994 until 2001. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from Westmount High School and received a B.Com from McGill University in 1962. While at McGill, he was a defensive lineman for the McGill Redmen football team that won the national championship. In 1964, he became a Chartered Accountant.
- Eric Stefanson
Eric Stefanson is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the cabinet of Progressive Conservative Premier Gary Filmon from 1991 to 1999, and was a member of the Manitoba legislature from 1990 to 2000. His father, also named Eric Stefanson, was a Progressive Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1958 to 1968. Stefanson was born in Gimli, Manitoba, and was educated at the University of Manitoba. He later practiced as a chartered accountant.
- William Hunt
William George Hunt, TD, FCA is the current Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms in London. Hunt worked for many years in the City of London as a chartered accountant. He was appointed as Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary in 1992 and in 1999 he was appointed as Windsor Herald. In 2007 he took over the position of Registrar of the College of Arms from Timothy Duke, Chester Herald.
- Ellen Fairclough
Ellen Louks Fairclough, PC, CC, FCA (January 28, 1905-November 13, 2004) was the first female member of the Canadian Cabinet. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Fairclough was a chartered accountant by training, and ran an accounting firm prior to entering politics. She was a member of Hamilton City Council from 1945 to 1950. She was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1950 by-election after being defeated in the 1949 federal election.
- J. Spencer Lanthier
J. Spencer Lanthier, C.M., F.C.A. (born December 17 1940) is a chartered accountant and corporate director. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Lanthier was educated at McGill University. In 1960, he joined the accounting firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in Montreal rising to become partner in 1972. He worked as a Managing Partner in the London, Ontario office from 1977 to 1982, in the Ottawa office from 1982 to 1984, and the Toronto office from 1984 to 1989.
- David Hathorn
David Hathorn (born 21 May 1962 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) is a South African businessman and chief executive of Mondi Europe, finance director of Mondi International and the Anglo Forest Products Division and director of Anglo American. Hathorn was educated at Hilton College and the University of Natal, where he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst.