Henry Irving is head of the ICAEW Audit and Assurance Faculty and member of FEE’s Auditing and Assurance Policy Group. He leads the Audit Quality Forum, which enables all those with an interest in the reliability of audited financial statements to discuss challenges to that concept and test public policy initiatives to promote it. He directs ICAEW’s re:Assurance, AuditInsights and AuditFutures programmes. Henry previously trained and worked in the Big Four, was the finance director of a London Market Group insurance company, led the insurance internal audit team at Norwich Union and was head of audit at the Civil Aviation Authority.