Unabhängigkeit. Verantwortung. Wirkung. Festschrift des Bundesrechnungshofes anlässlich seines 75-jährigen Bestehens

In 2014, Kay Scheller was elected as President of the Bundesrechnungshof, the German Supreme Audit Institution, for a 12-year term. Simultaneously, he took office as Federal Performance Commissioner. In 2017, he initiated structural reforms within the institution, thus rendering the audit of public funds more effectively and efficiently. During his tenure, he had been a member in the »United Nations Board of Auditors« for several years and has also been appointed as the external auditor of the »World Food Programme«. Before taking office, the lawyer had worked for several federal ministries, the Federal Chancellery and, since 1999, for the parliamentary group of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/Christian Social Union (CSU) – as the group’s director from 2005 to 2014.