Institute of Internal Auditors gets chair from 'down under'

Accounting Today, October, 2003 by Glenn Cheney

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLA. -- The Institute of Internal Auditors has named Bob McDonald, CIA, CGAP, FIIA, ASA, JP, chair of the institute, though he lives about as far from the IIA's headquarters here as an internal auditor can get.

McDonald lives in Brisbane, Australia.

McDonald joins a succession of non-Americans who have chaired the organization, a reflection of its international expansion. More than haft the institute's 85,000 members live outside the U.S. All members share the common challenge of dynamic competence.

"For those of us in the developed countries, the challenge is to stay relevant and competent and at the edge that our organization needs us to be at," McDonald said. "The challenge in the developing countries is how to move beyond the...