Abbas is a full professor of IT Auditing and serves as the Head of the IT Audit, Compliance and Advisory (ITACA) program at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. He is actively involved in scholarly research and chairs the Working Group on IT Assurance and Audit within the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
He has held senior and leadership roles at both national and international levels in the domains of IT Assurance & Advisory, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Cybersecurity, and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG). With more than 30 years of experience across a broad range of sectors, he currently serves as a Partner at KPMG in the Netherlands.