20th European Academic Conference on Internal Audit and Corporate Governance (in Athens, 2024)

"RAINER N 5": my fifth contribution :) Thank you. I am grateful for still being part of the European Academic Conference on Internal Audit and Corporate Governance https://www.eiacg.com/

In the years 201X, 10+ years ago, I took part as doctoral student, in the 202X years I contribute as guest speaker. I thank the organizers for the invite, Prof. Alessandro Merendino , Prof. Giuseppe D'Onza , Prof. Andreas G. Koutoupis CMIIA,CIA,CICA,CCSA,CRMA,CCS , Prof. Arno Nuijten , and Leon Yap .

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I find it important that the global community of internal auditors truly benefits from its international membership. I would recommend the profession to continue learning from all constructive and professional minds around the planet, thereby heightening the share of other voices to supplement the still pre-dominantly North American (US) driven discourse. All non-native English speakers know that we must overcome the language barrier.

21st, 2025 (probaby in Italy, again)

I would love to come back next year, in person and with my co-author, Barrie Enslin , speaking about our forthcoming book, seeing the light of day in January 2025 https://drrainerlenz.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/lenz-enslin-forthcoming/

The Gardener of Governance - Our Call to Action for Effective Internal Auditing (working title, thank you to Nabanita Sadhu (From Guwahati, Assam) from The Institute of Internal Auditors, India for the suggestion this morning). Still work in progress.

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20th, 2024 Athens (online)

Yesterday, 20 June, I spoke about my co-authored 2024 publication with David J. O'Regan, LittD .

Lenz, R. and O’Regan, D. J. (2024), The Global Internal Audit Standards – Old Wine in New Bottles? EDPACS, 69:3, 1-28 https://doi.org/10.1080/07366981.2024.2322835

Republished @ IIA India :

Lenz, R. and O’Regan, D. J. (2024), The New Internal Audit Standards – Insights and Introspection, The institute of Internal Auditors, India, Internal Audit Today, Issue 23 (June), https://lnkd.in/eqYpqSaV (republication)

https://drrainerlenz.wordpress.com/2024/01/31/20th-european-academic-conference-on-internal-audit-and-corporate-governance/

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19th, 2023 London (online)

I spoke about “Don’t give up – I count on You!!”, a word of encouragement to all PhD students: https://drrainerlenz.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/keynote-speaker-on-the-19th-european-academic-conference-on-internal-audit-and-corporate-governance-14-april/

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10 years back

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2013, 10+ years ago, I successfully defended my PhD thesis ?Lenz, R. (2013), Insights into the effectiveness of internal audit: a multi-method and multi-perspective study, Université catholique de Louvain – Louvain School of Management Research Institute, Doctoral Thesis 01|2013 https://drrainerlenz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/lenz-r.-2013-diss..pdf

Kudos to my main doctoral mentor, Gerrit Sarens , and my entire doctoral committee for all the support, the inspiration, and the guidance on my path to PhD https://drrainerlenz.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/mentoring-gerrit-sarens-thank-you/

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11th, 2013 Oslo

Presenting a draft manuscript that became Sarens, G., Lenz, R. and Decaux, L. (2016), Insights Into Self-Images of Internal Auditors, EDPACS, 54:4, 1-18 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07366981.2016.1220226

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10th, 2012 Verona

Presenting the draft version of paper 5 in my PhD book that has not yet gotten published in full in a peer reviewed journal. In 2017, we published a shortened version Lenz, R., Sarens, G. and Hoos, F. (2017), Internal Audit Effectiveness: Multiple Case Study Research Involving Chief Audit Executives and Senior Management, EDPACS, 55:1, 1-17 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07366981.2017.1278980

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9th, 2011 London

Presenting a draft manuscript that became Lenz, R., Sarens, G. and D'Silva, K. (2014), Probing the Discriminatory Power of Characteristics of Internal Audit Functions: Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff, International Journal of Auditing, Vol. 18 No. 2, 126-138 https://drrainerlenz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2014-ija_probing.pdf

A special mention to Gabriella Williams and Dan Swanson from Taylor & Francis Group & CRC Press for supporting the book project with my friend Barrie.