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Mr Vincent Vermeulen

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Vincent A. Vermeulen (Vincent A. Matatumua-Vermeulen) has broad and in-depth experience working in the public sector in the developing world. He is currently Assistant C.E.O. Corporate Service with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Samoa. He worked in the Ministry of Finance in Samoa from 1994 to 2005 during which he was a Budget Officer, Senior Finance Officer: Budget and Expenditure Policy, Senior Finance Officer: Revenue and Tax Policy and Manager Cash Flow Management. He was integrally involved in the formulation and implementation of the major financial reforms that the Samoan Ministry of Finance has implemented over the last decade.

In part this included training of public servants in the new Output Based Performance Budgeting system, designing an integrated spreadsheet system for the formulation of the national budget (still being used today) and participating in the development legislative and policy changes on public finance. As part of his duties he also represented the CEO of the Ministry of Finance and was Alternate Director on a number of government corporations from 2003-2005. As such he has experience across various public and private sectors.

He also held a part-time lecturing position at the National University of Samoa where he taught the Government Accounting course a 2nd year B. Com paper in which he focused his interest in public finance governance and accountability. The course examined the Samoan government's accounting process in terms of legislative mandates, budget preparation and formulation, government accounting procedures, audit and investigations, interaction between various government departments, ministries and constitutional officers and bodies. It also addressed concepts such as the separation of powers and how this relates to government finance. It also addressed issues such as misappropriations and misconduct and the concept of good governance.

He has a Bachelor of Arts (History/Politics) from James Cook University, a Master of Commerce (Government and Business with Languages) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Europe and the World 1500-2000: Expansion, Exchange and Globalisation from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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