SEMINAR: Emerging Trends and Strategic Opportunities that Maximize Internal Audit’s Value
Learning Objectives:
- Impact of the New Standards on External Quality Assessments
- Maturity Assessments Importance for Internal Audit Quality
- Trends and Opportunities to Elevate Internal Audit Effectiveness
Date: Wednesday 11 November 2026
Registration 5:30 pm
Event Start: 6:00 pm
Location: The Diplomatic Club Doha
Whether your internal audit function recently completed an External Quality Assessment (EQA) or you will do so in the future, this dynamic session will provide valuable insight from EQAs IIA Quality Services has performed to date under the new Global Internal Audit Standards (Standards). The new Standards not only focus on conformance, but they also focus on the performance of an internal audit function. In this session you will gain a clear understanding of actionable insights into trends and opportunities on how your internal audit function can enhance audit quality, ensure conformance, improve performance, boost your function’s maturity, elevate credibility with stakeholders, and help strengthen your organization’s ability to create, protect and sustain value.
Speaker
Justin Gwin
CIA, CPA, CISA, CRISC, CRMA
University of Missouri
Master of Accountancy
Justin is the Senior Director of Quality Services for The Institute of Internal Auditors. He spent over 20 years in various professional services firms specializing in internal audit, SOX compliance, control evaluation, enterprise risk management, and quality assessment reviews.
As a consulting practice leader for BDO, Justin led risk advisory services for the Florida market for 5 years. While at BDO, Justin served as the national practice leader for QA services. He was also invited by The IIA to participate in the development of IIA’s Global QA Manual for the enhanced 2024 IA Standards. Prior to BDO, Justin was at Kaufman Rossin, a Miami-based CPA firm, where he established the internal audit service line when he rejoined the firm in 2013. Throughout his career, he has served as an outsourced Chief Audit Executive for multiple organizations. Additionally, Justin spent four years at Mazars in London. While abroad, he performed internal audits, SOX testing, compliance and controls evaluations for multiple global corporations and client offices throughout Europe. Immediately prior to joining The IIA, he served as the VP of Internal Audit for Bayview Asset Management, a global alternative investment firm, hedge fund, and loan servicer.
As internal audit practitioner, Justin has led multi-faceted risk and controls engagements at companies ranging from emerging businesses through Fortune 500 in a wide array of industries, including Insurance, Technology, Manufacturing, Restaurant, Transportation/Logistics, Banking, Real Estate, Construction, Cruise lines, Non-Profit, Investment Management, Ship Repair, Health Care, Professional Services, Hospitality, and Retail.
Before joining The IIA staff, Justin held various volunteer roles at the local, national, and global levels for The IIA. He served as president and board member of the Miami Chapter, participated on the Global Professional Development Committee, and was selected as co-chair for the IIA International Conference 2020. Finally, he served as a district representative and district advisor on the Chapter Relations Committee. Justin has also been a featured speaker at premier IIA conferences and chapter events throughout the US and Latin America
