Kati Beiersdorf

Dr. Kati Beiersdorf, CPA represents the German country liaison member of EFRAG SR TEG. She is Technical Director at the DRSC (Deutsches Rechnungslegungs Standards Committee – Accounting Standards Committee of Germany) where she is working in the area of sustainability reporting. One of her main topics is sustainability reporting for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Other focus areas include industry-specific requirements for sustainability reporting as well as ISSB and SASB standards. 

Before joining the DRSC, Kati was a member of the German Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel. Other former work professional experience includes the International Reporting Group of RBS (now Mazars, as a project leader), DRSC (project manager) and internal auditing in a bank. She has worked in standard setting for many years and, inter alia, has served in the IASB international working group for small and medium-sized entities, and EFRAG’s working group on that topic. 

Kati holds a diploma (equiv. Master’s degree) from the Humboldt University Berlin and obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Technology Berlin with a dissertation on sustainability in financial reporting. Kati is a CPA licensed in Washington State, USA. Kati regularly publishes papers in professional journals covering various topic related to sustainability reporting.