Maciej Piechocki

Maciej Piechocki is XBRL Technology Project Manager at the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (IASCF). He is responsible for the technological development of the IFRS Taxonomy and other global IFRS and XBRL initiatives such as the Interoperable Taxonomy Architecture (ITA) project. Maciej is also involved in formulating the IASCF’s global outreach strategy to promote understanding and adoption of XBRL, encourage convergence and co-operation, and to establish best practice. Maciej serves also as member of the XBRL Standards Board.

Before joining the IASCF, Maciej was Head of the Competence Centre Information Logistics (Chair of Information Systems) at the Freiberg University of Technology. He was responsible for the centre’s business plan and strategic orientations, and led a team conducting projects in data warehousing, information logistics and ontologies. Maciej has also acted as an advisor on a number XBRL projects for the National Bank of Austria, the Polish Stock Exchange, and other commercial banks and software vendors.

Maciej holds a PhD in Economics (dr. rer. pol.) with a major in Management Information Systems. His doctoral dissertation on “XBRL Financial Reporting Supply Chain Architecture” was recognised by the American Accounting Association with a Strategic Emerging Technologies Outstanding Dissertation Award. Maciej also holds an MSc in Management and Marketing from the University of Economics in Poznan, Poland, as well as an MSc in Business Administration from the Freiberg University of Technology, Germany.

Maciej is the author of the insolvency prediction model commonly used by auditors in Poland for analysing financial statements and ratios, and has also authored and edited books - “XBRL for Interactive Data: Engineering the Information Value Chain” and “New Dimensions of Business Reporting & XBRL”. Maciej was an initiator of the Polish XBRL jurisdiction and the founding member of the XBRL Poland Association.