Ms. Jenitha John is the Former Chairperson of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global Board of Directors. (2020-21)

She is an experienced executive with more than 28 years of corporate experience (financial and audit roles) in diverse industries traversing the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. Majority of her experience was gained as a Chief Audit Executive of various organizations, in particular financial services.

For the past 16 years, she paralleled her executive role by having served as a non-executive board director of both public and private sector entities where she also served as the Audit & Risk/Compliance Committee Chairman of listed company boards in South Africa.

She was recognized as “South Africa’s Internal Auditor of the Year” in 2014. She also led a global task force on the recently updated Three Lines Model (formerly Three Lines of Defense).

She was one of the contributing authors to the “Sawyers Internal Auditing” book refreshed in 2019.

She was an active participant of the King IV Corporate Governance technical committee prior to the release in Nov 2016 in South Africa.

She was part of the task team that refreshed the global professional practices framework for internal auditors.