Bavan Nathan

Bavan Nathan, FCA is a senior risk and assurance executive who is passionate about driving greater innovation and new thinking in governance, risk, and assurance. As the Chief Audit and Risk Officer and the UK Head of Internal Audit and Risk Services at Tesco and KPMG, respectively, Bavan developed and implemented leading practice risk management and internal audit frameworks to enable better alignment to business strategy and operations.  As part of KPMG’s Global IA Innovation Council, he has been instrumental in developing KPMG’s Global Risk, Control and Assurance framework and in deploying across various FTSE-listed and multinational corporations. 

 In his recent role, Bavan developed Tesco’s strategy for responding to BEIS’ recommendations for improved audits and corporate governance requirements including the Audit and Assurance Policy, and the framework for integrated assurance over financial and non-financial reporting.

Bavan brings 24 years of deep risk management and internal audit experience having advised numerous clients, of various size and scale, and across multiple industries, both in the UK and Australia.  Bavan brings a deep and practical understanding of the what and the how of risk management.