Diana Melville

Governance Advisor

CIPFA

Diana is the policy lead on internal audit, audit committees and local authority governance at CIPFA. She represents CIPFA on the Internal Audit Standards Advisory Board. As well as policy and guidance, she liaises with government departments and other stakeholders, and delivers support through training, publications and briefings.

She is the author of Audit Committees, Practical Guidance for Local Authorities and Police (2022) and co-author of Internal Audit: Untapped Potential (2022)

She is a CIPFA Fellow and is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Sessions

Supporting Standards in public life

This session will explore practical strategies to improve standards in public life across the sector. We will hear from practitioners, ethics champions and lawyers how to recover from a crisis, approach better governance and ethical decision making, while engaging the whole organisation.