Andreas Antoniades has been appointed by the President of Cyprus as the Accountant General of the Republic, as effect from 4/8/2023.He had been a Director of Financial Services of the Treasury of the Republic and was appointed as Head of Accounting and Financial Management of the Ministry of Finance between April and July 2023. He is a chartered accountant, member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC) since 2002. He was the Secretary and, later, Vice-Chairman of the Public Sector Committee of the ICPAC during the period from 2006 to 2010.He holds a degree in Economics (BA Honours), majoring in Accounting and Finance, as well as a Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA with Merit). In 2010, he obtained a professional education certificate in Public Financial Management from the Harvard Kennedy School, after getting a full scholarship from the US Fulbright Scholarship Commission.He has 25 years of experience in the private sector, in the public sector in Cyprus and in the EU institutions. He worked in a big audit firm in Cyprus for a period of six years and has been serving the public sector from various positions associated with public financial management since 2004.During the period from 2010 to 2016, he offered his services to the European Court of Auditors in Luxembourg, as Attaché and, later, as Head of Cabinet of the Cypriot Member, Mr Lazarou S. Lazarou, whose main responsibility was the audit of the reliability of the accounts of the European Union, as well as the public governance of the European Commission.By Decisions of the Council of Ministers, he has been appointed as formal member of Water Supply Boards (Larnaca 2017-2019 and Limassol 2019-2023), representing the Accountant General of the Republic, Mrs Rea Georgiou.Andreas Antoniades has an excellent knowledge of Greek and English, and a very good knowledge of the French language.