Melanie Hind

Melanie Hind joined the Audit Board on 30 September 2021. Melanie is a former PwC audit and advisory partner, a former Chief Risk Officer and held the role of Executive Director at the FRC between 2012 and 2018. Since then, she has advised on accounting and audit regulation, and in 2020 acted as Head of Assurance Quality at BDO International. Melanie has also held non-executive roles associated with her role at the FRC; she was a board member of the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators, chairing its Global Audit Quality working group, and is a former member of the Advisory Council to the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation. Melanie has experience as an independent board member in the private and non-profit sectors in the UK and USA. She is a board member and audit committee chair of Talbot Underwriting Limited (a LLoyd's managing agent that is part of the AIG group), a board member and risk sub-committee chair at OneFamily (a mutual insurer and asset manager), and is an independent trustee and Honorary Treasurer of the Disasters Emergency Committee which raises funds in the UK to provide overseas humanitarian aid in emergency situations.