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Renita Lall
Country: Guyana
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia
Audit plan topic: Meal program in primary schools and its impact on school attendance

Renita has worked at the Audit Office of Guyana for 14 years. She currently works in the Performance Audit Section and has over a decade of experience in that area. She has also been involved in the Office’s audits of Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Program and World Bank programs in Guyana.

Renita has completed the Certified Accounting Technician qualifications offered by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She has also participated in several training sessions on performance auditing, including the program offered by the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme and courses given in Guyana by the Canadian Executive Service Organization and by CAAF.

Antany Mohabir
Country: Guyana
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia
Audit plan topic: Overcrowding at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and its impact on healthcare

Antany joined the Audit Office of Guyana in 1996 at the entry level. In 2015, he was promoted to Audit Supervisor and, in that role, he has carried out audits of several government agencies and foreign-funded projects. Antany is currently attached to the Fraud and Forensic Audit Unit, where he supervises staff in the execution of investigations and audits and liaises with law enforcement agencies in the prosecution of fraud cases.

He is also responsible for supervising the audit of the Public Accounts of Guyana and is a member of the team responsible for the preparation of the Auditor General’s report to the National Assembly.

Nicole Kabanyana
Country: Rwanda
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Alberta
Audit plan topic: Environmental protection of riverbanks and lakes in Rwanda

Nicole joined the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of States Finances of Rwanda in 2012. In 2016, she was promoted to be a team supervisor in the quality assurance and audit development department, focusing on financial and compliance audit assignments. She is involved in liaising with various development partners, such as the African Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions, about capacity building for the OAG staff and conducting various reviews of the OAG’s audit work. She has also audited the East African Community and conducted several compliance audits of projects co-financed by donor organizations and the government of Rwanda.

Nicole has a bachelor’s degree in business and administration from the Adventist Central Africa University and she is currently a student of ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – United Kingdom).

Hervé Niyongabo
Country: Rwanda
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Alberta
Audit plan topic: Smart classrooms (information and communication technologies in schools)

Hervé has a Bachelor of Science in economics and statistics from Uganda Martyrs University and is currently taking courses towards the Certified Actuarial Analyst qualification. He has completed the three-module performance audit course offered by the African Organization of English-speaking Supreme Audit Institutions (AFROSAI-E).

Hervé has been working in the Office of the Auditor General of State Finances of Rwanda as a performance auditor since September 2015. He has participated in eight performance audits and was the team leader for four of these. He previously worked as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research in Rwanda.

Zeynab Mbengue
Country: Senegal
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Quebec
Audit plan topic: Universal health coverage

Zeynab has been a magistrate at Senegal’s SAI, the Cour des Comptes, since March 2019 after having been a civil administrator for almost fifteen years. At the Cour des Comptes, she has the opportunity to apply her public management experience to performance auditing.

She graduated as a Civil Administrator from the École nationale d'Administration (ENA) of Senegal. She also holds two master’s degrees from Gaston Berger University, in literature and political science, and has completed several training courses in economic planning and policy. Zeynab began her career as a technical advisor in the office of the Ministre de la Coopération internationale et de la Coopération décentralisée. She was then a manager with the Ministry of Planning and a technical advisor to the Director General of Planning at the Ministry of Finance for seven years. She also served as Director of Research and Cooperation at ENA before being appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Tourism and Air Transport for three years.

Abdoulaye Seck
Country: Senegal
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Quebec
Audit plan topic: Medical coverage for public servants

Abdoulaye holds a master’s degree in geography (environment option) from Gaston Berger University and a certificate from the Institut National Supérieur de l’Éducation Populaire et du Sport. He has also completed training in areas such as public policy evaluation, risk-based audit, performance audit and total quality management.

He began his career in the Senegalese public administration at the Ministry of Sports, where he was responsible for the administrative, technical and financial management of the sports sector and strategic governance. He also worked as an organizational advisor at the Bureau Organisation et Méthodes of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic.

In May 2019, Abdoulaye joined the Cour des Comptes, as a magistrate, and is assigned to the Chamber of Budgetary and Financial Affairs.

Nguyen Thi Nguyet Anh
Country: Vietnam  
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Canada
Audit plan topic: Target program for climate change adaptation and green growth for the period of 2016-2020

Anh holds master’s degrees in management (from the University of Glamorgan, U.K.) and in finance (from Assumption University, Thailand), a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting (Rotterdam Business School, Netherlands) and a diploma in computer studies (Genetic Computer School, Singapore).

She has worked at the State Audit Office of Vietnam for more than nine years and is currently the Deputy Head of the Environmental Auditing Division. She has participated in many performance, compliance and financial audits. Anh is also a member of several task forces and working groups at her office, including the Secretariat for Vietnam’s chairmanship of the Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions and the team developing the office’s guidelines for environmental auditing.

Thai Nguyen Dung
Country: Vietnam
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Canada
Audit plan topic: Domestic solid waste management in the city of Da Nang

Dung joined the State Audit Office of Vietnam in 2014 as an auditor. During her five years there, working at the Da Nang regional office, she has carried out financial-compliance audits of the local budget implementation of four provinces in Vietnam. She has also been part of performance audits in the fields of public housing and financial autonomy of public hospitals.

Dung received a master’s degree in auditing with high distinction from Nanjing Audit University, China, and bachelor’s degree in banking and finance from Da Nang University of Economics, Vietnam.