Pesh Framjee

Global Head of Social Purpose and Non Profits at Crowe, Pesh was the Partner leading the teams at Deloitte, Arthur Andersen and BDO. Crowe has been listed as the lead provider of assurance services to charities in the UK for twelve consecutive years and works worldwide with Public Benefit Entities, NPOs, NGOs, social enterprises, impact investors and their funders. Pesh believes that they have all the business pressures and more of the private sector coupled with a value led perspective.

Involved in the sector for >35 years, Pesh is a Chartered Accountant and advises on Governance, Culture, Risk, Strategy, Impact, Performance Measurement, Structures, Productivity, Effectiveness, Organisational Development, Business Development, Due Diligence, Resource Mobilisation, Change Management, Collaborative Working, Strategic Alliances, Counter Fraud / Anti corruption, Financial Reporting, Internal and External Audit and Assurance, tax matters, grant management etc. He focuses on supporting boards and management to operate effectively and is Special Advisor to the Charity Finance Group.

A member of the Charity Law Association and CIPFA’s Charities and Public Benefit Entity Faculty Board Pesh was also a Board Member of the Institute of Risk Management. and has been and is a trustee of a number of charities. He writes and presents at conferences internationally on matters facing the sector. He is joint author of Charities – The Law and Practice and has written a book on Charity Trading. He was one of the Commissioners on the Charity Tax Commission which carried out a review of the UK charity tax system making recommendations to government.

He has been appointed by the Charity Commission to act as interim manager of five charities. He has been a member of the UK Charity SORP Committee for over 20 years and was appointed as Technical Advisor in 2017.

He was also a member of the Committee for Accounting for Public Benefit Entities and the ICAEW Charity Advisory Group and Chair of the Charity Audit Insights Group. He is now a member of a working group that is developing an International Financial Reporting Standard for Non Profits.

He was awarded the Personality of the Year 2020 Award by the International Accounting Bulletin.

He has also worked in the field with NGOs and PBEs. and is involved with many umbrella bodies internationally and often takes part in high level thought leadership in the sector and tweets from @peshframjee

He is a committed conservationist with a passion for animals, wildlife and wild places.