
Sara González
Head of Audit for ESG at ING Group
Sara González has over 20 years of experience in risk and controls identification and assessment in the Financial industry. She joined ING in January 2007 as a Senior Internal Auditor within ING Corporate Audit Services.
Passionate about Sustainability, Sara has been involved in developing the audit approach for ESG since 2021 and is the Head of the global ESG audit team within ING. Her current responsibilities include challenging and assessing the control environment at Group level on climate risk management, ESG reporting, the sustainable businesses across ING locations and the implementation of existing and new ESG related regulations globally in ING.
As part of her collaboration with IIA initiatives, Sara contributed to and had spoken publicly about IIA-Spain’s “Internal Audit and ESG Criteria“ document, and the ECIIA’s “The role of Internal Audit in ESG in the Banking Sector” position paper. She was also speaker in the 2023 Global IIA Conferences, presenting the “Internal Audit response towards ESG”.