Verra Marmalidou
Verra Marmalidou has been head of Compliance Risk Governance & Monitoring at National Bank of Greece Group since April 2021. She is expert in Compliance risk assessment methodologies, KRIs and KPIs development and monitoring. She is also Segment Risk and Control Officer. Before, she had been Head of Audit and Director at National Bank of Greece Group Internal Audit for 12 years. She has extensive experience in Internal Audit. She was project manager for the implementation of a GRC platform, used by all lines and the COSO internal Control implementation. She is involved in many projects related to synergies between the 3rd and 2nd line. She was awarded three times by the bank’s Transformation initiative. She also worked as audit expert in projects organized and implemented by OECD and EF (Expertise France) for the Support of the Greek Central Administration Reform to be applied by Internal Audit Service of Public Administration and Greek Municipalities. She was awarded by the Greek Association of executive Secretaries General of the Municipalities for her contribution to the internal audit in local governments. Verra is also Chair of the IIA, Greece. She is member of the IIA GAAC (Global Advocacy Advisory Council), member of the advisory board as expert in internal audit and risk in three Universities in Greece, member of the ACCA Global risk forum. For the period 2016-2022 she was a member of the BoD and Treasurer of ECIIA (European confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing) as well as member of ECIIA Banking Committee. She was recently awarded by IIA Turkey for her contribution to internal audit. She is Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and she holds CRMA (Certification in Risk Management Assurance), Accreditation in Internal Quality Assessment/Validation by the IIA and the COSO Internal Control Integrated framework Certificate.