Danita K. Ostling

Partner, Ernst & Young

Ms. Ostling is a partner in Ernst & Young's Assurance and Advisory Business Services (AABS) Professional Practice and recently was appointed as the Americas IFRS Leader. As such, she is responsible for coordinating the firm's IFRS accounting guidance and consultative services within the Americas practice. She also is a member of the firm's Global IFRS Policy Committee.

Prior her appointment as Americas IFRS Leader, Ms. Ostling served eight years in London as the Deputy Director of Ernst & Young's Global AABS Professional Practice. From 1993 to 1999, Ms. Ostling was a vice president in the Corporate Accounting Policy and Advisory Group of Citigroup, and before joining Citigroup she was a project manager at the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Prior to that, Ms. Ostling was a senior manager in Ernst & Young's National Accounting Services department in New York and an audit manager in the Dallas office of Ernst & Young.

Ms. Ostling earned her B.S. degree in accounting from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

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