Mr. Koktvedgaard is head of VAT, auditing, accounting and reporting with the Confederation of Danish Industries and is nominated by Danish Funding Mechanism. Kristian Koktvedgaard was a member of the EFRAG European Lab PTF on Prepatory work for the elaboration of possible EU Non-Financial Reporting Standards (PTF-NFRS) and co-lead one of the social clusters under the EFRAG European Lab PTF on European sustainability reporting standards (PTF-ESRS). Kristian Koktvedgaard has been a member of the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board since 2022.
Kristian Koktvedgaard is chair of the BusinessEurope Accounting Sounding Board and is member of the organising Committee behind the Danish Annual Financial Statements Awards, an award that aims to showcase and improve best-practices in corporate reporting. Non-financial reporting has been an integrated part of financial statements in Denmark since the inclusion in the Danish Financial Statements Act in 2009. A key focus with the Awards is to ensure and improve the value and relevance of the non-financial reporting alongside the financial reporting.
Kristian Koktvedgaard brings more than 20 years of experience with corporate reporting and international standard setting. He is recent chair of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) Consultative Advisory Group (CAG) between July 2013 and June 2019 and a former member of the IFRS Advisory Council from 2018 - 2023. Between 2020 and 2026, Kristian Koktvedgaard also served as a member of the Board of XBRL Denmark, an organisation focussing on facilitating and improving digital reporting.
