Martin Manuzi
PIOB Secretary General
PIOB Secretary General since 2024
Dr. Martin B. Manuzi is the Secretary General of the Public Interest Oversight Board and has 25 years of international experience in regulatory and public interest matters relating to governance, reporting, assurance and tax.
Dr. Manuzi joined the Public Interest Oversight Board in 2022 as Nominations Director when the PIOB assumed responsibility for appointing members to the Standard-Setting Boards. In June 2023, he took over the Secretary General position from Gonzalo Ramos, first in an acting capacity and was subsequently appointed Secretary General on a permanent basis with effect from 1 March 2024.
Dr. Manuzi was extensively engaged while based in Brussels on EU regulatory and legislative initiatives in the audit and accountancy spheres from 2000 to 2020. Among his additional areas of activity prior to joining the PIOB are: ethical tax planning through his leadership of the CFE Tax Advisers Europe 2021 initiative on “an ethics quality bar for all tax advisers”; audit quality assurance through his establishment and Chairmanship of the Quality Assurance Network for non-PIE audit; and public sector accounting and reporting through his Chairmanship of the ICAEW-PwC discussion series on “Sustainable public finances – EU perspectives”.
From 2016 to 2020, Dr. Manuzi was Chair of the Accountancy Sub-Group of the UK Professional Business Services Council’s Mutual Market Access Group, addressing the impact of Brexit on the accountancy profession. In 2008, he was lead researcher and author of an authoritative study on the structure and functioning of international accountancy firms published by the Fédération des Experts Comptables Européens (now Accountancy Europe).
Dr. Manuzi completed a Ph.D. in 2000 on the Italian state industrial sector, addressing the impact of political interference in the management of the Italian state industrial sector through corporate governance case studies. He worked as a part-time university lecturer from 1993 to 1998 in modern economic and political history.