The Center for Audit Quality has appointed former Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and Federal Reserve Board official, Angela Desmond, as senior director of external relations.

Desmond comes to the CAQ from Corporate Risk Advisors, a D.C.-based consulting and strategic advisory firm specializing in the financial services industry, where she was a managing director. Prior to that, Desmond served as Chief of Staff for the PCAOB, a private-sector, nonprofit corporation created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to oversee the auditors of public companies, from September 2006 until August 2009. She also acted as the PCAOB’s interim chief administrative officer.

In previous years, she was a member of the Federal Reserve Board’s official staff. Desmond is the former general counsel of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and was a Branch Chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission.