Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) on Wednesday announced the appointment of Tony Manwaring as Executive Director, External Affairs. The newly-created role forms part of CIMA's Senior Management Team based at its Corporate Centre and will commence in January 2015.
Tony, who has over 20 years' experience in the field of external affairs, will be responsible for advancing CIMA's position as the world's leading and largest management accounting institute. Drawing on his extensive experience of advocacy he will direct a number of ambitious work streams focused on global influencers in government and business. Additionally, he will oversee corporate communications and media strategy to drive the profile of CIMA and the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation.
Tony comes to CIMA from Tomorrow's Company where he has served as Chief Executive for seven years. Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Scope for three years and previously held a number of other leadership roles in the not for profit sector. Charles Tilley, Chief Executive at CIMA, said, "We are thrilled to have Tony on board and I personally look forward to working with him to ensure CIMA has an even greater voice across the global public and private sectors. We have had one of our most ambitious years to date in 2014 with the launches of our Competency Framework, revised syllabus and CGMA Global Management Accounting Principles. Tony is a dynamic influencer and communicator and his appointment will help us leverage this important work going forwards." Tony Manwaring while commenting on his appointment said: "Looking ahead to my role at CIMA, my focus will be to continue elevating CIMA's and CGMA's profile and influence at a time when the importance of management accounting supporting quality decision making to create and preserve value has never been higher."-PR