Rianné Potgieter

Rianné is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and Compliance Professional (SA). During her 27-year career in banking she filled various senior management roles in business, finance, risk management, internal audit and compliance.

She ran her own compliance consulting firm for 8 years before being appointed as the CEO of the Compliance Institute Southern Africa in July 2018. She is also the Chair of the International Federation of
Compliance Associations (IFCA). She is passionate about compliance and ensuring that the compliance profession is positioned as a strategic business partner, an independent assurance provider and what it means to be the ‘C’ in GRC.

She became a Chartered Accountant at the age of 41 and lives by her personal motto ‘It is never too late to have a happy childhood (or a new career).’