Andreas Bergmann is a Professor for public management and Director of the Institute for Public Management at Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur(Switzerland). He holds a diploma of Lancaster University (U.K.) and both a master and a doctor degree of St. Gallen University (Switzerland). Before going back to university he worked as a business consultant and in senior positions in public administrations. At university, he directed a large study financed by Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) about the impact of IPSAS on public sector accounting from 2001 till 2003. From 2003 till 2005 he was a member of the IPSAS-Board consultative group. In 2006 he became a public member of the IPSAS-Board. He acts as a senior advisor in implementation projects in Switzerlandand as a trainer at the Worldbank Group and the United Nations, strongly supported by his team