RISK BASED INTERNAL AUDIT CONFERENCE

Vigor Events And Grant Thornton focused RISK BASED INTERNAL AUDIT CONFERENCE in a 2 day Conference in May 2017

In recent years, both Kuwait and the GCC market have had to adjust to the post financial crisis. In this in – depth conference this relevant topic was addressed by experts in Financial Risks who provided an outstanding platform to learn more about the best practices in Internal Audit Risk Management.

Day one opened with welcome speech from Mr.Mohammad Nasser Barakat  –  Director, Grant Thornton, Started by Dr. Adnan Al Hassan  –  Director of the Technical Office and Investment at Audit Bureau of Kuwait, Followed by other experts like –  Mr.Phil Griffiths  –  Co – founder and Managing Director at Business Risk Management Ltd – UK, Mr.Mohamed Raoof  –  Executive Director at Crowe Horwath – Kuwait, Mr. Daryoush Mohammadi Pour – Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers – Kuwait, Mr.Hesham Elsakka – Partner at RSM Albazie & Co. – Kuwait, Mr. Mohamed Shoukry, Group Compliance Manager in a leading regional bank.

The final and Second day of this conference was a series of two workshops conducted by the Mr. Phil Griffith  –  Founder and Managing Director of Business Risk Management Ltd – UK, Titled “Developing a strategic audit plan using a risk based approach” and  Mr. Mohammad Nasser Barakat –  Director, Grant Thornton, Titled “Effective Risk Assessment for RBIA”.

RISK BASED INTERNAL AUDIT CONFERENCE was  tailor made for Top level managers, Board members, especially risk and audit committee chairs and members, Chief Risk Officers, Chief Audit Executives (CAEs), Heads of market, credit, operational risk and middle managers held on the 23th – 24th of May 2017 at Jumeirah Messilah Beach. The event was organized by Vigor Events, Co – organized by ALGAS Events And Grant Thornton.