Michał Zubrycki

Michal is the Head of Standards at BR-AG. For over 14 years he has been advising various authorities and institutions including central banks, business registries and tax offices on the application of various technical formats and standards for the purposes of electronic reporting and data exchange. He has extensive knowledge in the areas of development, implementation and quality assurance of electronic dictionaries and taxonomies following XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) standard.

Michal has expertise in various other electronic formats, including SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange) for statistical data exchange, as well as ISO 20022 widely used in the transactional reporting in the securities space and in payments. Michal is one of the co-authors of the XBRL South African Standard and Governance Framework and is responsible for the development and maintenance of the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) taxonomy since 2016. Since 2024, Michal has assisted CIPC with the first technical implementation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) S1/S2 taxonomy, facilitating sustainability disclosure reporting for South African entities.