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RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0644 C O N F I D E N T I A L PRETORIA 000385 
 
SIPDIS 
 
IO/MPR - MATT GLOCKNER, IO/MPR - BRIAN HACKETT, USUN/MR - 
BRUCE RASHKOW, AND USUN/MR - CHERITH NORMAN 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/25/2020 
TAGS:      
SUBJECT: PRETORIA RESPONSE ON SOUTH AFRICA'S UN/OIOS 
NOMINEE 
 
REF: A. STATE 16301 
      B. STATE 16709 
      C. 09 PRETORIA 2385 
 
Classified By: POL Counselor Walter N.S. Pflaumer for reasons 1.4 (b) a 
nd (d) 
 
 
 1. (C) Post hereby replies to Department request (ref A) for 
background information on Mr. Imran Vanker, who the 
Department reports (ref B) is under consideration for 
nomination by the South African Government (SAG) as head of 
the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS). 
 
 2. (C) Because Vanker is headquartered in New York, Post 
finds that research links lead to references in the U.S. 
Unlike the Department's prior three candidates (ref C) based 
in South Africa on whom Post was able to provide substantial 
background, Vanker's overseas posting means he is not written 
about in local media.  Online searches mainly turn up U.N. 
documents endorsed with his signature but otherwise not 
yielding clues to his qualifications.  Queries direct to the 
Auditor General (AG)'s office would be awkward, given that 
the AG is himself the U.S. nominee.  Post does not know 
general sources in the domestic auditing profession who would 
be personally acquainted with Vanker. 
 
 3. (C) The very few available details on Vanker follow.  He 
is Chairman of the Audit Operations Committee (apparently 
since 2009) and Director of External Audit for the U.N. Board 
of Auditors.  He came to this role from the South African 
office of the Auditor General, with which he remains 
affiliated.  According to his LinkedIn profile, before 
government service he was with auditors KPMG from 1996 to 
 2006.  During that time he was also a senior lecturer at the 
University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UKZN) for a year, 1999-2000. 
He graduated UKZN in 1995 with an honors degree in commerce. 
He has a twitter account (http://twitter.com/ivanker) with 
personal not business posts, unused since 2009.  (His home 
address is 330 E. 38th Street; telephone number (646) 
329-5973 should USUN wish to contact or interview him.) 
GIPS