Caroline Jane Gardner was the Auditor General for Scotland between June 2012 and July 2020. She is a former president of

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(CIPFA) 2006−7.

Career

Gardiner is originally from London. She studied for her CIPFA exams while working as a trainee accountant at the Wolverhampton Borough council. She moved to Edinburgh in 1995, taking up the post of director of health and social work studies at the Accounts Commission. When

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was created in 2000, she became the deputy auditor general. She was a member of the CIPFA Council since 2000. She was the chair of CIPFA in Scotland in 2001−2002. She became CIPFA's 116th president, from June 2006 to June 2007. She was seconded as the chief financial officer of the

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in 2010. After this she spent a short period freelancing. In March 2012, the Scottish Parliament decided that Caroline Gardner should succeed Robert Black. In July she took up the position of Auditor General, and Accountable Officer for Audit Scotland. She was succeed in the role by Stephen Boyle in July 2020.

Honours

In March 2016, Gardner was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters. She was appointed

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(CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to the Scottish public sector.

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