Robert Mednick

Robert Mednick was worldwide Managing Partner of Professional and Regulatory Affairs at Arthur Andersen/Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) for close to a decade before retiring in mid-1998. He was also Chairman of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in 1996-1997, having previously served on its Auditing Standards Board, the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council and the SEC Practice Section Executive Committee. Other Board service included the Rand Corporation Institute for Civil Justice and the Ray Garrett Jr Corporate and Securities Law Institute at Northwestern University Law School.​

Since retirement, Mr. Mednick has served as a senior consultant to the World Bank, the founding Chairman of a Compliance Advisory Panel at the International Federation of Accountants, a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., and a member of three advisory groups to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, D.C. He has taught graduate seminars at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and at two universities in Israel.​