Mr. Zarb is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, and of the Malta Institute of Accountants and holds a warrant of Certified Public Accountant. He recently retired from a long career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he served as a partner between 1988 until his retirement on 31st December 2014 upon reaching the firm’s mandatory partner retirement age.
John is a former Council member and past president of Malta Institute of Accountants. He served on the Accountancy Board, the regulatory body of the profession, between 1996 and 2014, and represented Government on the EU Accounting Regulatory Committee between 2004 until his retirement in 2014. John also served for many years as a visiting lecturer and examiner in Auditing at University of Malta.