Marie-Hélène Laimay, a speaker at the 2011 FERMA Forum, has been elected President of the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA) in succession to Caroline Dittmeier. Laimay is a member of the board of IFACI (Institut Français de l’Audit et du Contrôle Internes) and senior vice president audit and internal control assessment at the global healthcare company Sanofi.

Among other projects under her presidency, ECIIA intends to continue to build relationships with key European institutions interested in corporate governance. FERMA has a good working relationship with ECIIA, most notably through the publication of two guides to the risk management provisions of the 8th European Company Law Directive.

Marie-Hélène Laimay