Yvette Lange

Yvette is an Adjunct Professor within the Auditing Division at the School of Accountancy at Wits University. As part of her role at Wits, Yvette is the course co-ordinator for integrated reporting, integrated thinking, sustainability assurance, and governance related executive level short courses, lectures on various auditing and integrated reporting related topics to CTA and master’s students and is a member of the School’s Centre for Critical Accounting and Auditing Research. Yvette has her Masters in Responsible Leadership and is a qualified CA (SA) and CIA with her areas of expertise including integrated reporting & thinking, assurance & analysis (financial, non-financial and controls), risk management, sustainability aspects and non-financial assurance and advisory. Prior to joining Wits in January 2020, Yvette was a Director within the Governance, Risk and Internal Audit team at PwC joining from PwC’s Sustainability and Integrated Reporting team; spending 12 years at PwC in various roles and across various divisions. While at PwC, Yvette was a co-ordinator of PwC’s Boardroom Forum and NED (Non-Executive Director) programme and remains a current member of the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa’s Working Group, including overseeing research aspects on behalf of this Committee. In addition, Yvette has had responsibility for overseeing and developing non-financial assurance methodology, risk and quality matters for PwC globally and locally while at PwC and is a previous member of CFAS (Committee for Auditing Standards) and previous Chairman of the IRBA’s (Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors) Sustainability Standing Committee and remains a member of this Standing Committee. Yvette was also a member of SAICA’s task group which considered and provided comments on the IAASB’s EER guidance which focusses on assurance aspects pertaining to extended forms of external reporting. In 2018, Yvette was seconded to the IIRC (International Integrated Reporting Council) as a Technical Specialist and contributed to various technical matters, proposals and papers as part of this role.