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Iraj Amiri

Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee 

With over 20 years of experience in audit and assurance, Iraj heads up the Development Bank of Wales' Audit and Risk committee.

Iraj-Amiri

With over 20 years of experience in audit and assurance, Iraj heads up the Development Bank of Wales’ Audit and Risk Committee.

Iraj is a pioneer in the governance and assurance field, combining detailed and authoritative knowledge of the subject with its practical application. He is a recognised global expert and authority on internal audit and assurance. For many years, he was a regular speaker at internal audit conferences around the world. 

Throughout his career he has worked closely with major British and European banking institutions and investment companies. He spent over a decade heading up FTSE 100 Company Schroders plc’s internal audit department. Iraj was also head of the Wellcome Trust’s internal audit team – overseeing the management of more than £18bn in investments.

A fellow of the ICAEW, he developed the enterprise risk service line for Deloitte, where he was a senior partner, taking the unit from its early beginnings to a team of over 600 workforce. Iraj has extensive experience of working at board and trustee level.

He is an ex-trustee of the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), and a non-executive director of Aon UK Limited and Coventry Building Society. For both business he chairs their Audit Committee and is a member of their Risk Committee. He is also a nonexecutive director at Eurocell plc.