Liv Watson

Liv is on secondment to the IMP, leading the IMP's facilitation on digitisation. She also chairs the IMP's Non-financial Digital Transformation Working Group, an initiative aiming to determine if and how non-financial reporting lends itself to structured data using the open international standard for digital business reporting, XBRL. 

As the co-founder of XBRL and the XBRL International consortium, Liv works globally with leading market regulators, accounting associations and institutions. She has held several speaking engagements on financial and business reporting standards, its benefits, potential applications and adoption in corporate governance and social responsibility reporting. Liv has also held several leadership positions related to XBRL, including as a member of the IFRS XBRL Advisory Committee, the XBRL International Steering Committee and the XBRL Standing Committee. Liv has authored one of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)'s most successful professional courses, "Accounting System Technology for the 21st Century", and published numerous articles for international publications and journals. She is an editorial board member of the "International Journal of Disclosure and Governance", as well as the co- and contributing author to several books, including "XBRL for Dummies", and the "Governance, Risk and Compliance Handbook", "The Landscape of Integrated Reporting," and "Effective Auditing for Corporations". For the past 10 years, Liv has also been the Senior Director of Strategic Customer Initiatives at Workiva Inc., which has served over 70% of fortune 500 companies and more than 200 EU companies with their statutory reporting requirements. Liv is a long-standing member of the IMA and is an Advisory Board Member to the University of Southern Indiana and the University of Albany. She is Norwegian and currently based in Amsterdam.