Dr.Iveta Reinholde is a professor of public administration at the University of Latvia. The fields of her research include public policy evaluation, internal and external audit. She is experienced in advising and designing policy recommendations for national and local governments as she is head of the Public Council of the National Audit Office (Latvia). Since 2018, she is a member of the board of IIA Latvia.

Robert is an Audit Director at K&H Bank and fulfills the role of the Methodology Head at KBC Group Audit. He gained his professional experience in Deloitte, Rabobank, Citibank, KBC Group, and K&H Bank in various audit functions over the past 20 years.
Robert integrates the IIA Hungary Board, and he already served as president of the institute. He is the President of the Internal Audit Workgroup at the Hungarian Banking Association.

Águeda de Lara is currently Director of Internal Audit and Risk at Globalvia. She is a certified Internal Auditor (CIA) with over twenty years of experience in internal and external auditing (Deloitte, EDP Renováveis (EDPR). She has a double degree in Business and Law from the Pontifical University of Comillas and also has a master’s degree in Big Data, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence from the IE Business School.

Astrid Langeveld-Vos is the Chief Audit Executive of Achmea since 2014 at Achmea, a large financial services company within the Netherlands with focus on Insurance (Health, Non-Life, Life etc). She started her career in 1995 at a health insurance company (later on Achmea) in an internal control function. Langeveld-Vos continued her career as a.o. an auditor and IT auditor, manager responsible for setting up the (Functional line) with the internal audit department and in 2010 as member of the management team within Achmea Internal Audit.  She is a certified accountant and also has a CISA certification. Besides her work at Achmea, Astrid is also a member of the Board of the Institute of Internal Auditors in the Netherlands and a member of the Insurance and Pension funds committee within the Institute of Certified Accountants (NBA) in which she represents the internal audit function of Insurance Companies.

Andrea Bracht heads up the Internal Audit department of Commerzbank AG on Executive level. Until she took over her role in October 2015 she was in charge of overseeing all audit activities related to Commerzbank AG’s investment banking business globally.

Being a trained bank officer with a degree in business administration (Universities of Passau, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Budapest), Andrea started her career in Dresdner Bank where she worked in Group Audit’s Investment banking audit division. In 2007 she became Chief Operating Officer of Group Treasury being responsible for the management of the function’s operational business for more than five years. Andrea is member of the executive board of the DIIR – Deutsches Institut für Interne Revision (German IIA).

John Bendermacher is a former member of the IIA Global Board of Directors (2015-2019 and Executive Committee (2018/2019), and the Global Advocacy Committee (2016/2018). He also was member and Chairman of the IIA Netherlands Board (2012/2018).

John is Chief Audit Executive of Euroclear group (based in Brussels, Belgium) and has a long career in Internal Audit and in the IIA.

Martta Rajalahti is Senior Internal Auditor at OP Financial Group. She has over 20 years of experience in financing in various roles and almost 10 years with Internal Audit, both as Chief Audit Executive and Auditor. She is an active member of IIA Finland and an Instructor of CIA trainings