Peter L. Wyman

Peter Wyman is Global Leader, Public Policy and Regulation, an appointment he took up on 1 July 2008 having had responsibility for regulatory and professional affairs for the U.K. firm for a number of years. In addition to his global role he will remain as Head of Regulation and Professional Affairs for the U.K. firm.

Peter was the special adviser on taxation and deregulation to the Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs (1993-94), a member of the Deregulation Task Force (for business and the voluntary sector -- 1994-97) and external overseer of the Inland Revenue/Contributions Agency Joint Working Programme (1995-98).

Peter was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (2002-03). He has been a member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’s since 1991, and was a member of its Executive Committee from 1996-2003. He was the first chairman of the First Faculty (Taxation) from 1991-95 and was chairman of the Education & Training Directorate from 1995-99. He has been a member of numerous other committees and working parties, including chairman of the Professional Standards Office (1999-2000) and Deputy Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council. Peter was also a member of the Group which oversaw the rewriting of the U.K. Corporate Governance code which followed the Higgs Report.

In 2006 Peter Wyman received The Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Award for Outstanding Achievement, the profession’s highest award, and was also awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the accountancy profession.

Peter was educated at Epsom College and has been a qualified Chartered Accountant since 1973. He has been with PricewaterhouseCoopers U.K, firm and its predecessors since 1968 and became a partner in the U.K. firm in 1978. His clients have included many major national and multi-national companies, private businesses and charities.