Rudi DRIES

Senior Expert – Methodology Team Leader, Directorate-General Internal Audit Service, European Commission, Belgium

Professional background

European Commission

• Senior Expert – Methodology  Team Leader (since October 2017), Directorate-General Internal Audit Service, European Commission, Belgium
• Deputy Head of Unit (May 2010–September 2017) in the Internal Audit Service of the European Commission, co-responsible for the audit in the areas of "economic and financial affairs and internal market and services", as from January 2013. From 2010 until 2012, co-responsible for the audit in the area of "the internal policy of the European Union".
• Deputy Audit Supervisor (July 2004-May 2010).
• Internal Auditor (September 2002-July 2004).

Previous experience

• Part-time Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) at the Department Accountancy, Finance and Insurance for the course "Internal control and risk management" (2006-2011).
• Audit Manager at Fortis Bank, Brussels (Belgium), responsible for the audit in the areas: Finance & Control, Tax and Legal (1997-2002).
• Internal Auditor at ASLK Bank/Fortis Bank, Brussels (Belgium) (1988-1997).
• Assistant at the Department of Accountancy at Ghent University (1984-1988).

Education

• Licentiaat Handels- en Financiële Wetenschappen (Master's degree in Commercial and Financial Sciences), Economische Hogeschool Limburg, Diepenbeek (Belgium) (1982).
• Speciaal Licentiaat in de Accountancy (Master's degree in Accountancy), Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium) (1983).