Internal Audit Service Conference 2022 | European Commission | 30 May 2022 | European Commission Charlemagne building, Rue de la Loi 170, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

Our conference aims to look at the role internal auditors can play as trusted advisors supporting organisations to deliver their recovery objectives in this dynamic and challenging environment.

We will firstly look at the evolving expectations of citizens and their representatives, civil society, investors and other stakeholders towards public and private organisations, given the huge scale of investment in the recovery effort and the renewed focus on sustainability, social responsibility and the digital transition. As President von der Leyen stressed in her 2021 State of the Union speech, it is crucial that “every euro and every cent is spent for its proper purpose and in line with the rule of law principles”.

We will ask what this implies in terms of the accountability of organisations as concerns the results and impact of their actions, and how their performance is tracked and reported. We will also address the growing link between resource allocation and performance in the European Union budget, with a particular focus on the most recent generation of EU funding programmes, including the landmark Recovery and Resilience Facility.

We will then go on to explore what this means in practice for the day-to-day work of internal auditors, as trusted advisors to their organisations. What do our organisations expect from us in this new, fast-moving and ever more complex environment? How do we adjust our priorities and working methods to meet these emerging needs? How do we better reflect the focus on sustainability and corporate responsibility and support strong accountability structures when it comes to the use of resources and reporting on performance?

2022 Speakers

MODERATOR:

Norman Jardine

SPEAKERS:

Manfred Kraff
Director General of the Internal Audit Service and Internal Auditor of the European Commission

Didier Reynders
European Commissioner for Justice, responsible for internal audit

Monika Hohlmeier
Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee for Budgetary Control (MEP)

François-Roger Cazala
Member of the European Court of Auditors (ECA)

Claire Cheremetinski
Minister Counsellor and head of economic, trade and financial affairs – Permanent Representation of the French Republic to the European Union

Gert Jan Koopman
Director General - Directorate General for Budget - European Commission

Celine Gauer
Director-General - Head of the Recovery and Resilience Task Force (SG-RECOVER) - European Commission

PANELISTS:

Anthony Pugliese
President and Chief Executive Officer - Institute of Internal Auditors

Paul J. Sobel
Chair of the Board of Directors at the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO)

Thomas Müller
Marqués Berger, Chair of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) Consultative Advisory Group

Maria Rosa Aldea Busquets
Deputy Director-General - Directorate General for Budget - European Commission

Jenitha John
Former Chair of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Internal Auditors

Jacob Soll
Professor of Philosophy, History and Accounting at the University of Southern California