Kristina Bernotaite, IIA Lithuania

Dr. Kristina Bernotaitė is a certified member of the Lithuanian Association of Internal Auditors since 2003. She is a member of IIA Lithuania Board since 2009 and since 2010 a member of ECIIA Academic task force. Currently she is a Chief Internal Audit Executive of Business Investment and Guarantee Ltd.

Prior to her current position, Kristina used to be member of the Audit Board of Parex bank, Head of Internal Audit Unit of Risk Advisory Services in KPMG, worked for Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economy of Lithuania. She is and used to be a lecture at the Teaching Centre of Ministry of Finance and IIA Lithuania (for internal audit practitioners), at the International University of Law and Business and Lithuanian Law University (for audit and finance law subjects).

A graduate of the UCD Dublin European Institute where received a Master degree in Economic Science (MeConSc) and obtained a Master degree in Law at the Lithuanian Law University. Thereafter she defended the dissertation in Finance Law and for academic studies she had research visits at the Europe Institute of Basel University (Switzerland), European University Institute in Florence (Italy), Wroclaw University (Poland), Leuven University and had introductory courses at European Institutions: European Commission, European Parliament, NATO (Belgium), etc.

She is a winner of the Junior Research Fellowship of the Gerbert Rüf Stiftung, of the Government of Ireland Research Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences for post-graduate students, and the Scholarship from the Lithuanian Educational Exchange Support Fund.