Mr Taylor is senior partner in national audit and assurance technical department of Deloitte China and head of the Deloitte Asia Pacific IFRS centre of excellence based in Hong Kong.
Mr Taylor is currently the Chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Listing Committee. He also is a member of the Deloitte Global Audit Quality Board.
He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, where he is also a member of the Professional Standards Monitoring Expert Panel and its Sustainability and Integrated Reporting Advisory Group.
Mr Taylor is a member of IFRS Advisory Council the formal advisory body to the Trustees of the IFRS Foundation, an Honorary advisor to the Financial Reporting Council and a member of its Oversight and Operations Committee.
He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a fellow member of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants.
Mr Taylor graduated from Lancaster University with a degree in Accounting and Finance.