Matthew Humphrey
Risk and Governance Consulting Partner, RSM
Matt is head of the firm’s Enterprise Risk Management service group for RSM UK. He has over 25 years of risk advisory and consulting experience, having worked with Grant Thornton, the Audit Commission, as well as being a Head of Internal Audit within the public sector before joining RSM in 2004. Matt is an ICAEW associate and works across all sectors with all types of business.
In 2002 Matt architected and mobilised what was the largest local government Internal Audit Consortium. This was held up by the then ODPM strategic partnering taskforce as a prime example of good practice in alternative service delivery.
Matt was instrumental in the development of 4Risk a key module within the RSM Insight4GRC software suite. Insight4GRC has in excess of 250 clients, 95,000 end users and is now in its 12th anniversary.
Matt was author of a number of the RSM Assurance Toolkits including health, further education, housing, academy and independent school sectors. He wrote the Polish Government Risk Management Guide as part of a European Union capacity building initiative. He has had numerous articles published that challenge thinking on risk management, controls and assurance, including "the Risk Test” in Managing Partner magazine and "boredom in the boardroom” which has been published many times.
Over the last few years Matt has led and participated in the delivery of the risk management module of the Ambition Academy Leadership programme working with Sir David Carter. Until recently, Matt was advisory member of the Peterborough Diocese Education Trust Governance Committee. Prior to this Matt was a school Chair of Governors, contributing to the school achieving an outstanding Ofsted judgement, as well as guiding the school through a "black swan” event and the transition to academy.