Lynn Lawton Biog

Lynn Lawton, FCA, CISA, FIIA, PIIA, FBCS CITP
2007-2008 International President
ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI)

Lynn Lawton is a director at KPMG LLP in Watford, UK, where she is responsible for risk management in KPMG’s UK Risk Advisory Services function. 

Previously, she had 20 years of experience of providing IT assurance services and security advice across a range of industries. In various KPMG UK offices, she led teams of IT audit and security specialists engaged in a variety of activities including the IT aspects of financial statement audit and internal audit, as well as broader advice on improving business and IT processes and controls, improving system security, system testing, benchmarking of information security, IT strategy implementation and outsourcing implementation.  She has also been responsible for the IT aspects of due diligence work for company flotations, mergers, acquisitions and disposals.   

Lawton has been a member of ISACA since 1989 and served on the North of England UK Chapter board for 10 years, including six years as chapter president.  She served on ISACA''s global Standards Board for four years prior to chairing it for two years, and set up and chaired ISACA’s Governmental and Regulatory Agencies Board for three years and its Assurance Committee for one year. She was a vice president on ISACA’s International Board from 1999 to 2002, and returned to the International Board as an appointed director of ISACA in 2006. She was elected ISACA's International President for 2007/08 at the association's annual meeting in Singapore in July.

In addition, Lawton is a member of the Programme Advisory Board for the CASS Business School’s MSc in Management, and a Trustee of The University Women’s
Club. Her education includes a BA (Hones), Economics, Accounting and Financial Management, Sheffield University.


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