Datuk Zaiton Mohd Hassan, a Malaysian finance leader and long-standing advocate for access to accountancy, has become the ACCA President.
She is CEO of the Malaysia Professional Accountancy Centre (MyPAC), a non-profit that helps young people from lower-income backgrounds build careers in finance. She is also chair of GX Bank, Malaysia’s first digital bank, and holds several board and advisory roles promoting sound governance and professional development. Hassan is passionate about the role accountancy can play in opening opportunity and advancing social mobility.
She said: “It’s a tremendous honour to serve as president of ACCA, an organisation that has shaped my life and career. I came into this profession because it was open to anyone willing to work for it, whatever their background, and I’ve seen how it can lift people and whole communities. Opportunity is everything, and accountancy remains one of the most powerful routes to it.”
Hassan is joined in the leadership of ACCA’s global governing Council by fellow officers, deputy president Cristina Gutu, a KPMG director from Romania, and vice president Gary Kent, a senior leader in regional government, from Canada.
