Caroline Gardner
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Caroline Gardner | |
|---|---|
| Auditor General for Scotland | |
| In office July 2012 – 2020 | |
| Monarch | Queen Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Robert Black |
| First Minister | Alex Salmond (2011–2014) |
| First Minister | Nicola Sturgeon (2014–present) |
| Personal details | |
| Profession | Accountant |
Caroline Jane Gardner CBE CPFA FRSE was the Auditor General for Scotland between June 2012 and July 2020. She is a former president of Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) 2006−7.
Gardiner is originally from London. She studied for her CIPFA exams while working as a trainee accountant at the Wolverhampton Borough council.[1] She moved to Edinburgh in 1995, taking up the post of director of health and social work studies at the Accounts Commission.[1] When Audit Scotland was created in 2000, she became the deputy auditor general.[1]
She was a member of the CIPFA Council since 2000.[1] She was the chair of CIPFA in Scotland in 2001−2002.[1] She became CIPFA's 116th president, from June 2006 to June 2007.[1]
She was seconded as the chief financial officer of the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2010.[2] After this she spent a short period freelancing.[3]
In March 2012, the Scottish Parliament decided that Caroline Gardner should succeed Robert Black.[4] In July she took up the position of Auditor General, and Accountable Officer for Audit Scotland.[5] She was in office at the onset of the United Kingdom government austerity programme, where there was a reduction in public services to repay debt incurred after the 2008 financial crisis.[6] She was succeed in the role by Stephen Boyle in July 2020.[7]
In March 2024 she was appointed by the University of Glasgow as Honorary Professor at the Centre for Public Policy.[8]