Julie Hotchkiss was appointed to the ACCA executive team in November 2018 and now holds the role of executive director - people and transformation. In this role, Julie is responsible for ensuring the people agenda and major change activities are fully aligned to enable the organisation’s strategy. Prior to this, Julie was the director – Europe and Americas, where she had a key role in growing and maintaining ACCA’s international footprint and reputation. In this strategic leadership role, Julie played her part in developing the accountancy profession, working with members, students, employers and organisations in a wide range of countries. Julie leads ACCA’s work on developing the culture in line with the long-standing values of innovation, integrity and inclusion. As a global organisation with members and student in more than 170 countries and employees in over 50 countries, ACCA’s value of inclusion is based on creating opportunity for all, removing artificial barriers and embracing diversity.