Head of Standards - BR-AG
Michal is the Head of Standards at BR-AG. For over 14 years he has been advising various authorities and institutions including central banks, business registries and tax offices on the application of various technical formats and standards for the purposes of electronic reporting and data exchange. He has extensive knowledge in the areas of development, implementation and quality assurance of electronic dictionaries and taxonomies following XBRL standard. Michal has the expertise in various other electronic formats, including SDMX for statistical data exchange, as well as ISO 20022 widely used in the transactional reporting in the securities space and in payments. Michal is one of the co-authors of the XBRL South African Standard and Governance Framework and is responsible for the development and maintenance of the CIPC taxonomy since 2016. From 2024, Michal assisted CIPC with the first technical implementation of the ISSB S1/S2 taxonomy to facilitate reporting sustainability disclosures for South African entities