International Women's Day - Accelerate Action

Dorota Szymanska - Head of Internal Audit at Johnson Matthey. With over 15 years of experience in auditing, governance, and risk management, she has worked globally across various industries. Dorota is passionate about mentoring others, adding value to the business she works with and has a proven track record of developing frameworks that drive project assurance and enhance internal audit effectiveness.

Bonnie Dyson - Global Chief Operating Officer at HSBC & WIIA Chair - Bonnie has worked for HSBC for 21 years, mostly in Global Internal Audit originally joining on the graduate scheme. Bonnie has worked in the UK, Bermuda, France and Hong Kong. Bonnie’s early career was in varied regional and country audit team roles covering multiple disciplines, then she moved across to Global Compliance Audit to establish a team in Asia Pacific. Bonnie moved back to the UK to head up Global Financial Crime Audit operations and has since been appointed the Global Chief Operating Officer for the wider function. Bonnie has been a member of the Women In Internal Audit Steering Committee since 2020.”

Harj Powar - A partner in the Internal Audit practice at EY and leads EY’s Internal Audit activities across the EMEIA region. He has over 20 years of experience within financial services with a specific focus on the banking sector. 

Siobhan Tipping - A partner at EY currently leading a team of 180 partners and 2500 FTE, Siobhan is the Consulting Account Lead for HSBC globally. She has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services Sector at EY and HSBC Bank and will be joining us to talk through her career journey in the context of accelerate action. 

Lauriane Cochenet - Lead Principal Auditor (Vice - President) at Deutsche Bank. With over 15+ years of experience in auditing financial services including in external audit, internal audit and investigation, she has worked with global teams covering a range of topics including Investment Banking and Anti-Financial Crime. Lauriane has spent half of her career in France and then moved to Deutsche Bank in London, where she has taken on various roles in audit across different teams.

Zara Majeed - Head of Internal Audit Operations at Allianz UK and an Employee Engagement representative. She is an FCCA and ACII qualified Internal Audit professional with 18 years’ experience across Internal Audit and Consulting delivery as an internal auditor and manager of small teams.

Jelena Eremic Newson - Global Lead Partner for EY’s Equality Standard work. She leads the Social Sustainability team for EY in the UK, who are specialists across social and community impact; culture in audit; reporting and transparent communications, diversity, equity and inclusion; human rights; ethics; and across the spectrum of long-term value creation. She is a member of the International Business and Diplomatic Exchange (IBDE) Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group and a member of the Change the Race Ratio Steering Committee.

Nilesh Dosa - Founder of icanyoucantoo, a volunteer powered grassroots company which tackles social inequality. He is described as the  “man turning inequality into opportunity for young people” by Forbes.com and was awarded an MBE and will be sharing his story with us. 

Saalihah Abdullah – Graduate Programme at Barclays Bank. Saalihah is a Higher Apprentice in Internal Audit at Barclays. Saalihah moved from Zimbabwe to England in 2020 and started her first job at Barclays in the Corporate Banking team right after completing her A-levels. She is in her second year at the bank and has recently received her Internal Audit Practitioner Designation.

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