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Saket Modi

CFA® Charterholder, Chartered Accountant (ACA), IFRS Certificate, IPSAS Diploma

15 years experienceLinkedIn

Saket Modi is a London-based financial trainer and consultant. He has designed and facilitated workshops for finance and non-finance professionals from over 50 countries in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions. Saket specializes in financial reporting and analysis (IFRS/IPSAS), including financial instruments and insurance contracts. He has spent considerable time working, advising and training in matters relating to IFRS, and delivered workshops for corporate, banks and similar financial institutions, public sector organizations, and professional services firms. Saket has facilitated courses on ESG reporting and effects of climate-related matters on IFRS financial statements, for organizations globally. Some of the organizations Saket has delivered training sessions for include Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Barclays Bank, Citibank, ENI, Ernst & Young, European University Institute (EUI), Financial Services Commission Anguilla, Fitch Ratings, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Glencore, HaysMac, ICAEW, IMF, Kreston Global, OECD, Saudi Aramco, Union Bank of India (UK) and WorldPay. Saket has written material on IFRS Accounting for Financial Instruments for Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and was invited by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board® (IAASB®) to present on IFRS 9 at their board meeting in New York. He has delivered training sessions on IFRS 9 for participants from over 20 countries. Saket has also written financial statements guidance on IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts for Croner-i, UK’s leading information resource for tax and accounting professionals. In addition, he has written material on International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) for the African Professionalization Initiative (API). Saket has previously worked with Lloyds Banking Group, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. In addition to being a Chartered Accountant (India), Saket holds IFRS certificate from the ICAEW and IPSAS Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). He has an MSc in Multinational Accounting and Financial Management from UK and is a CFA® charterholder.

Caroline Aggestam

Ph.D International Accounting

10 years experienceLinkedIn

Caroline Aggestam is a trainer and consultant in sustainability reporting and public sector financial reporting. She has facilitated training workshops for accounting and sustainability professionals from over 20 countries in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions. Caroline has written two books: ‘Sustainability Accounting and Reporting: A CSRD Perspective’ published by Cengage in 2025 and ‘Interpretation and Application of IPSAS’ published by Wiley in 2015. Caroline delivers workshops on sustainability reporting, including the European Union Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the accompanying European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards (IFRS S1 and S2), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework. Caroline’s training covers the full reporting process—from materiality assessment and disclosure design to scenario-based analysis and the integration of sustainability into strategy and risk management. With her experience in both financial and sustainability reporting, she can address the links between financial and sustainability data. Caroline also develops, organisation specific and case-based teaching materials to cater for the specific sustainability matters relevant to the client. Caroline is based in Denmark. She holds a Ph.D In International Accounting.