Daniel J. Dustin, CPA, is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), a forum for the nation’s 55 U.S. Boards of Accountancy that administer the Uniform CPA Examination and regulate the practice of public accountancy in the U.S. As president and CEO, Dustin leads the association’s Nashville, Tennessee headquarters as well as offices in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and an international testing and call center in Hagatna, Guam. He also serves as CEO of NASBA’s ethics arm, the NASBA Center for the Public Trust (CPT).
Dustin joined NASBA on January 1, 2012, as vice president, state board relations. In this role, he served as an advocate for State Boards of Accountancy and identified new opportunities to provide support and services to NASBA’s member boards as an extension of the Association’s mission. Dustin has also served as a voice on key issues impacting the administration of the Uniform CPA Examination and the progression of the CPA pipeline. His participation on the joint NASBA-AICPA CPA Evolution initiative resulted in changes to the CPA licensure model, which recognizes the rapidly changing skills and competencies the practice of accounting requires today and will require in the future. As a member of the National Pipeline Advisory Group, established by the AICPA (NPAG), Dustin has worked to explore hurdles to earning a CPA license and ways to strengthen the accounting pipeline. He is also actively involved with NASBA’s Professional Licensure Task Force, which is charged with considering new concepts for CPA licensure that may be included in the Uniform Accountancy Act to update the current licensure model.
Prior to joining NASBA, Dustin served as executive secretary of the New York State Board for Public Accountancy, an appointment that was made in 1998 by the New York State Board of Regents. As executive secretary, Dustin was responsible for professional licensing, practice and conduct, including professional discipline of Certified Public Accountants and Public Accountants in New York. A key point person in the regulatory process, Dustin monitored the evolution of professional practice at national and state levels and developed and drafted proposed legislation and amendments to New York State accountancy rules and regulations.
The 2010 recipient of NASBA’s prestigious Lorraine P. Sachs Standard of Excellence Award for distinction in accountancy regulation and public protection, Dustin is former chair of NASBA’s CPA Examination and Administration Committee, Accountancy Licensee Database Task Force and Executive Directors Committee. He also served as a member of the AICPA’s Peer Review Task Force and Board of Examiners (BOE), including having chaired the BOE’s Operations Committee.
Dustin, a native of Latham, NY, earned a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in accounting from Clarkson University and became a licensed CPA in 1988.