Olivier Scherer

Olivier Schérer is the IFRS Technical leader for PwC in France. He has more than 25 years of experience in the audit practice, of which 15 in the IFRS technical function. He served clients in a wide range of industries, both in France and in the US, and assisted preparers in their capital markets transactions and their adoption of IFRS.

He publishes annually an IFRS manual of accounting as well as various publications on financial reporting. He chairs every year a conference attended by over 1,000 participants dedicated to IFRS and corporate reporting hot topics. 

He has been involved in Standard setting as chair and/or member of various groups (Accounting Working Party and Corporate Reporting Policy Group at Accountancy Europe, Forum of Application of IFRS and IFRS Commission at the French Standard Setter, IFRS Accounting Committee at the CNCC). He is also a member of the IFRS Global Leadership team at PwC and the Global team in charge of the comment letters to the IASB's standard setting activities.

He is a former member of EFRAG TEG.