Get to Know the New Global Internal Audit Standards

Kat Seeuws, CIA, CRMA, CGAP, CFE, is vice president, Standards and Guidance, at The Institute of Internal Auditors, Global Headquarters She previously was the CEO of the IIA Belgium. Seeuws started her career as a tax inspector in the Federal Tax Administration and also worked as a senior advisor of the Federal Service of Budget and Management Control. She was responsible for supporting and facilitating the development of internal control in the federal public sector and piloting a project on developing the modern structure of audit for Belgian federal public departments. In 2018 Seeuws joined the European Commission as a national expert in DG Budget and supported the Public Internal Control Network of the European Commission. She has also consulted for Grant Thornton where she performed different assignments in audit, quality assessment and consultancy, particularly for public sector clients. Kat has been involved in several international collaboration and support projects in the field of public administration reform steered by the European Commission, OECD, and the World Bank.

Naohiro Mouri, CIA, is executive vice president and chief auditor of AIG. He previously served as senior managing director of Asia Pacific Internal Audit at AIG and is a national of Japan. He was nominated as external advisor to UNOPS in 2021 and joined the AAC in 2022.

Prior to joining AIG in 2015 Mr. Mouri was statutory executive officer, senior vice president and chief auditor for MetLife Japan. He has also held chief auditor positions at JP Morgan for Asia Pacific, Shinsei Bank, Morgan Stanley Japan, and Deutche Bank Japan. Mouri served as chairman of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global Board of Directors (2018-2019) and has been an active member of the organization since 1995. In addition, he has been Director for the IIA Japan since 2003. Mouri was the first President of the Asian Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditors from 2001 to 2006.

Mouri received The IIA’s Victor Z. Brink Award for distinguished service to the profession in 2021 and the 2016 Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Internal Audit Award from the Asia Confederation of the IIA.  Mouri has co-authored a book on internal auditing for financial institutions in Japanese and Mandarin.

Michael Peppers, CIA, QIAL, CRMA, CPA, is chief audit executive for The University of Texas System. He oversees the internal audit function of more than 100 professional staff for a university system that provides education, health care, and research at fourteen academic and health institutions. It has over 243,000 students and an annual operating budget of over $25 billion. Throughout his 35-year career, which began in public accounting, Peppers has led progressive internal audit activities at major not-for-profit organizations in higher education and health care. He has held numerous volunteer board and leadership positions. He is currently The Institute of Internal Auditors representative on the Board of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) and the immediate past chairman of the IIA International Internal Audit Standards Board (chairman, 2020-23). He was on the IIA Global Board of Directors and served as 2017‑18 global chairman. Peppers also served as chairman of the the IIA North American Board (2012-13). He was inducted into the IIA American Hall of Distinguished Audit Practitioners and was a recipient of the IIA Victor Z. Brink Award for Distinguished Service and the Association of College and University Auditors Outstanding Professional Contributions Award. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accountancy from the University of South Florida.

Naji Fayad, MBA, CA, CIA, CCSA, CISA, CRMA, GRCP, GRCA, CISI,  is the chief internal audit officer at Cenomi Centers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also a governor of the IIA Lebanon Chapter and speaks frequently at local and regional conferences on topics related to corporate governance, internal auditing, risk management, and compliance. Fayad is currently IIA Global Standards Board (IIASB) member and was a content review working group lead. He previously served as president of the Institute of Internal Auditors in Lebanon and six years on the Institute Relations Committee of IIA-Global. He was a board member and chairman of the audit committee for Arabia Insurance and a member of the company’s risk committee. Naji also previously worked for Deloitte in Montreal Canada. Fayad obtained his MBA at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, his home country, and received a graduate degree in Public Accountancy from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he also taught classes. He also obtained certifications in risk management and risk and compliance auditing as well as compliance and anti-money laundering.

Harriet Richardson, CIA, CRMA, CGAP, CPA, recently retired as the first Inspector General for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. She has more than 30 years of experience conducting audits and investigations at the federal, state, and local levels of government. Richardson is currently IIA Global Standards Board (IIASB) member and was a content review working group lead. She served for five years on the board of the Association of Local Government Auditors, including a term as president and is past chair of ALGA’s Professional Issues Committee. She has served as a local government representative on the Association of Government Accountants’ Financial Management Standards Board and the U.S. GAO’s Government Audit Standards Advisory Council and is currently ALGA’s representative on the Government Accounting Standards Advisory Council. Richardson has received several of ALGA’s Knighton Awards as well as its Lifetime Achievement Award, the AGA’s Excellent in Government Leadership Award in 2017, and the David M. Walker Excellence in Government Performance and Accountability Award in 2018.

Doron Ronen, CIA, CRMA, QAR, CPA, CRISC, CSX-F, CDPSE, CFE, MA, LLM, is managing partner of Kreston IL A2Z Risk Management Solutions and partner of Kreston Consulting A2Z in Israel. He has over 41 years of experience in internal audit, governance, risk assessment/management, IT/cyber audit, operational audit, fraud examination, SOX, procedures forming, and expert witness for the courts of law and for arbitrators. He is IIA Israel president/chair, and Professional Committee chair. He also served as ISACA Israel past president. Ronen is currently IIA Global Standards Board (IIASB) member and was a content review working group lead. He serves as Variety Israel’s audit committee chair. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Internal Audit and Public Administration and a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.). He speaks Hebrew, English, French, Italian, and German.

Dominique Vincenti, CIA, CRMA, CPBPM, has been the vice president and chief audit executive at Uber since March 2019. She joined from Nordstrom, a leading U.S. fashion specialty retailer, where she led the internal audit group for eight years. Her 30 years of experience includes internal audit management positions for internationally operating organizations including FINCA International, Marks & Spencer, the Kering group, and The IIA Global HQ, where she was employed for seven years as a chief officer overseeing the organization’s professional and technical practices. Vincenti is currently IIA Global Standards Board (IIASB) member and was a content review working group lead. She also represented The IIA and provided technical support to the COSO Task Forces for COSO ERM 2004, COSO Monitoring, and COSO ICFR for smaller companies. Vincenti holds a Master of Science from EDHEC Business School - France, and a Master of Management Sciences from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences – UK.