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Alan Lees

Alan Lees

Alan was appointed managing director of Kingston City Group, an HE internal audit consortium, in May 2015. He was previously a partner at Grant Thornton and Robson Rhodes, and head of IT audit at National Grid. Alan has specialised in risk advisory services and audit leadership for over 35 years.

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Data analytics

Data analytics – do they deliver?

Data analytics is touted as being a huge help in many areas of higher education. But Alan Lees of Kingston City Group is sceptical that it can replace the bloodhound-like investigative instincts of human internal auditors.