Audit is Life

Heidi Lloce Mendoza, former Undersecretary General for Internal Oversight Services of the United Nations and former Commissioner of the Philippines' Commission on Audit, talked about her new book Audit is Life. The book covers the stories that happened during audit but are not included in an audit report. The book also shares how these stories contain important lessons in life.

Angela Kastner

Angela is a passionate procurement professional, believing that buying decisions made by governments, funders and implementers in the development sector have long term impacts and by supporting the sector to improve procurement outcomes we can affect real change. With 20 years’ experience in government, the UN and private sector procurement, Angela has seen the difference a well planned and executed procurement strategy can make to the quality of services delivered to citizens and those in need. At DIAL, Angela is exploring models for financing and procurement of digital technologies.

Abigail Blanca Pena

Abigail has more than 16 years of in-depth experience in internal auditing; from setting up an internal audit function, to internal audit outsourcing and co-sourcing, to conducting external quality assessment reviews of internal audit functions of clients.

She is active in professional organizations such as The Institute of Internal Auditors Philippines (IIA-Philippines) and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Philippines (ACFE-Phils). She was the 2020 Chairman of the Board of Trustees and President of the IIA-Philippines.