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prof. dr. Abbas Shahim, RE


Full Professor, School of Business and Economics, Accounting

Personal information

Abbas Shahim is full professor of IT Auditing at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2003).

Research
  • IT audit in financial statement review
  • Continuous monitoring & auditing
  • IT risk management
  • Data Protection and privacy
  • IT assurance reporting
  • Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
  • Software assurance
  • Security Operation Center (SOC)
  • Cyber resilience
Teaching
  • IT Auditing: Full professor and chair
  • Digital Auditing: Full professor and co-chair
  • Certified Public Controller (CPC): Guest lecturer
  • Register Controller (RC): Guest lecturer
  • Compliance & Integriteit Management: Guest lecturer
Ancillary activities
  • IFIP | Laxenburg | Voorzitter werkgroep IT Assurance & Audit | 2013-07-01 - present
  • NOREA | Amsterdam | Lid Raad voor Beroepsethiek | 2018-07-01 - present
  • Journal of Information System Security | Richmond | Associate Editor | 2019-07-01 - present
  • BZK | Den Haag | Adviseur | 2022-10-01 - 2025-10-01
  • KPMG | Amstelveen | Partner | 2025-04-01 - present

Ancillary activities are updated daily

prof. dr. Abbas Shahim, RE

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