About The INCOSAI

Accountability State Authority Former President

Counsellor
HESHAM BADAWY

Speech of H.E. Former President of the Accountability State Authority of Egypt during the XXIV INCOSAI

Your Excellency; Chair of INTOSAI; Minister/ Bruno Dantas 

President of SAI Brazil

 Your Excellency; INTOSAI Second Vice-President; Dr. Hussam Alangari 

President of SAI Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

 Your Excellency; INTOSAI Secretary General; Dr. Margit Kraker 

President of SAI Austria

 Your Excellencies; Heads of Supreme Audit Institutions, 

Distinguished Attendees;

     To you all, I extend my sincere greetings. I would like to present my thanks and gratitude for your esteemed General Assembly’s endorsement of the hosting of the Arab Republic of Egypt for XXV INCOSAI.

It is a great honor for my country to have, for the second time, such         a trustworthiness attestation and to sincerely work together with a serious determination towards strengthening the INTOSAI’s global voice.

    I would also like to extend my sincere congratulations to the Supreme Audit Institution of Brazil for its successful hosting of XXIV INCOSAI under its generous patronage.

    Your distinguished management of our meetings had a great impact on the fruitful results and important decisions reached, hence providing our Organization with a clear road map that is accurately and comprehensively reflected in our strategic plan for the next six years and in the respective operational plans of the Working Groups and the Key Goals’ Committees as well.

    This is together with its aim of developing new mechanisms to achieve resilience to emergency situations, strengthening strategic partnerships with other Organizations, external partners and civil society in addition to supporting the independence of Supreme Audit Institutions and enhancing their own capabilities on a comprehensive basis within a sound framework of improved professional pronouncements as we viewed and discussed together when launching a new Guideline tackling the work of Supreme Audit Institutions with anti-corruption authorities.

    This is along with promoting inclusiveness and gender equality within the framework of the INTOSAI community; a priority to which our SAI attaches a considerable importance and explicitly asserted in its organizational architecture that bears testimony to the diversity of its auditors.

    We promise to work - through these mechanisms, and based on the promising initiatives we have launched and the important conceptual conclusions we unanimously agreed upon during this Congress - towards building on the progress we have achieved reaching the highest levels of transparency, integrity and good governance as well as achieving sustainability on all axes of development.

    Honorable audience, I do not want to prolong, so I would like to invite you to watch this short video with which I end my speech, hoping to meet and warmly welcome you to Egypt on the banks of the Eternal River Nile during the XXV INCOSAI.

Once again, my sincerest thanks and best regards!