Thierry is the Chief Audit Executive of a pan European ECB supervised bank active in Private Banking (KBL). He has more than 20 years of experience in internal audit in the financial sector within major European countries and is a Board member of IIA Luxembourg, where he served as Chairman from 2012 to 2016.
He was elected to the ECIIA Management Board in 2015 and became Vice President of ECIIA in 2017. At ECIIA, he is also the Chairman of the Public Affairs Coordination Committee and the Vice Chairs of the Banking and Insurance Committees.

Gabrielle Rudolf von Rohr is Director of the Cantonal Financial Control in Solothurn. She is chair of the Board of IIA Switzerland and a Senior Consultant Binder Corporate Finance. She is a regular speaker on conferences, universities, and other events.

Paul Manning is the Director of the Office of Internal Oversight Services at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Previously, he was the director of Internal Audit and Investigations for Unicef, with 25 years of internal auditing experience across the commercial, public and charitable sectors, leading in-house and outsourced audit functions as well as investigations and evaluations.

Paul was awarded Chartered Internal Auditor status in 2014 and is the Chartered Institute President. Prior to that, he was Chair of the Institute’s Audit Committee.

Manuel De Alzua has been Head of Internal Audit of Amadeus IT group since 2013. He studied at the ISG business school and has held various roles related to finance, strategy, M&A and internal audit in companies such as Allianz, Havas, AXA, and Amadeus IT Group. He is a board member of IIA Spain.

Kristiina Lagerstedt is the Chief Audit Executive at Kemira. She has served as Vice President, Internal Audit at Sanoma. She was previously Head of Internal Audit at Nokia, where she spent nine years in various roles. Lagerstedt was IIA Finland chair of the Board from 2011 to 2013 and is now a member of its Advocacy Committee She is a member of the Professional Issues Committee at IIA Global. She was elected to the ECIIA Management Board in September 2015.

Jens Motel is Head of Unit Internal Auditing, Risk Management, Controlling Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control at BAFA. He previously served in adminstrative functions at BAFA. Motel is a board member of IIA Germany.

Verra Marmalidou is the President of IIA Greece. She is Internal Audit Director at National Bank of Greece Group. In the past she was head of  the Private Banking at National Securities.

Tomáš Pivoňka is Chairman of the Board of Czech IIA, and Chief Audit Executive at CEZ, Europe’s eighth largest energy company. He is a member of IIA‘s Global Advocacy Committee, of the Czech Public Audit Oversight Board Coordination Committee, and a member of the Czech European Confederation of Directors Associations. He is a regular speaker at conferences, universities, roundtables and other events.