Dick de Waard appointed as professor of Auditing

As of 1 February 2010, Dr. D.A. de Waard has been appointed as (part-time) professor of Auditing in the department of Accountancy at the Faculty of Economics and Business. The chair focuses on assurance in corporate responsibility information, both financial and (increasingly) non-financial.

Dick de Waard (Rotterdam, 1956) received his Accountancy education at NIVRA and took his post-initial degree in Environmental Accountancy at the University of Amsterdam. In 1977, he started working for Ernst & Young (and its predecessors), where he still works. He taught at Baak Foundation (educational institute of VNO-NCW) for a few years and was teacher internal programmes at Ernst & Young. Since 1991, De Waard has been connected to the University of Groningen as a part-time associate professor of Auditing.

In 2008, he obtained his PhD at the University of Groningen with the thesis ‘Monitoring socially responsible entrepreneurship’. At Ernst & Young, De Waard is responsible for the service in the field of sustainability and climate issues in the Netherlands and Central Europe, such as advice on strategy, policy, monitoring and reporting. More specifically, De Waard is responsible for monitoring sustainability reports from various national and multinational corporations.

De Waard is also a member of the supervisory board of the COG Drenthe foundation, which incorporates a group of 21 primary schools. Moreover, he has been a member of the supervisory board of BVO FC Groningen and board member of a foundation for a centre for ex-detainees and socially weak people.