Andreas Koutoupis

Head of Governance, Risk & Internal Audit Services (Director) at Mazars

Trainer

Before joining Mazars, Dr Koutoupis served as a Senior Manager within the Internal Audit Services department of PricewaterhouseCoopers, responsible for the Financial Services Internal Audit Assurance & Consulting Services for more than ten years. He has also been a Professional Trainer in Corporate Governance, Business Risk Management and Internal Audit related topics. Dr Koutoupis is also an Adjunct Lecturer of Accounting and Auditing in the University of the Aegean and also lectures Internal Auditing in the MSc of Taxation and Auditing at the Panteion University of Athens, as well as at the Greek Open University, IESEG University (France); and the National Centre of Public Administration in Athens, Greece.

He has been awarded a BSc in Public Administration with a distinction (Panteion University, Greece); an MSc in Internal Auditing and Management (Cass Business School, UK); and a PhD in Corporate Governance and Internal Controls with a distinction (Panteion University, Greece). He is a Chartered Internal Auditor (CMIIA); Certified Internal Auditor (CIA); Certified Internal Controls Auditor (CICA); Certified in Control Self-Assessment (CCSA); Certified in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA); and Certified Controls Specialist (CCS). Dr Koutoupis is an Internal Quality Assessment validator of the International Institute of Internal Auditors. He holds an ‘A’ class Greek Accounting & Tax License from the Economic Chamber of Greece.

In 2005, he received the Michael J. Barett award by the International Institute of Internal Auditors, while in April 2006, he received a PhD Colloquium award (Cass Business School) for distinctive performance by the IIA-Italy. He is an Editorial Review Board Member of the International Journal of Organizational Analysis (Emerald) and the Journal of Business and Finance (ISSN: 2305 - 1825). In 2014 The IIA Research Foundation published an Academic Research (Koutoupis et al.) entitled Internal Audit Around the World: A perspective on Global Regions.