Our advisors

Alexandre is a compliance and risk management professional with 28 years of experience including 23 years in the domain of EU Grants audit and compliance acquired on a broad range of EU funding programmes and mechanisms. For over 15 years, Alexandre was in charge, at a big4 audit & consulting firm, of major EC audit framework contracts including for DG DEVCO/ INTPA, EACEA/CINEA, DG BUDG and SFPI.

Izabela is an audit and tax consultancy professional with 22 years of experience including more than 15 years in audit of EU-funded projects with a focus on EU research programmes (FP7, Horizon Europe) and regional development and cohesion fund programmes. Over the past 18 years, Izabela has also been extensively involved in funding opportunity analysis and grant application support.

Benoit is an audit and consultancy professional with more than 20 years of experience, including 14 years in the domain of EC funded projects.

Shehzad is an audit professional with 25 years of experience including 20 years in the context of external aid, mostly for the EU and the UN. He gained extensive experience in the field of compliance audits, internal control assessments as well as reviews of public finance management (PEFA & PFM Methodology). Shehzad has conducted over 200 assignments in least developed and developing countries.

Maher is an audit and finance professional with 20 years of experience, including 15 years in the field of audits of projects funded by International Financial Institutions (IFI)/ International Donor Organisations (IDO) – mainly the EU – and providing advisory services in connection with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Maher has gained extensive filed experience in least developed countries.

Marios is an audit and accounting professional with more than 13 years of experience including 10 years in the domain of EU projects funded under various programmes (incl. FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe, EDF, IPA, HUMA, CEF, IF, LIFE). Over the recent years, Marios has focused on Grant Application Support, assisting organisations in identifying eligible programmes and qualifying for EU funding.

Orsolya is a senior audit and advisory professional with more than 25 years of experience, including 20 years in the domain of EU-funded projects and programmes, mostly in the context of EU external aid. Having led and carried out more than 300 audits of EU external aid projects, she has extensive field experience across 35+ countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Her experience includes financial and systems audits, compliance audits and, as a Certified Fraud Examiner, fraud-related assignments.

Radhouane is an audit and finance professional with 27 years of experience including 20 years with audit of external aid projects managed or funded by International Donors/ Organizations. Over the past 15 Years, he has gained extensive experience on EU external aid funding (incl. EDF, EIDHR, IPA, NDICI, HUMA)

José is a certified chartered accountant with more than 35 years of experience in audit and financial management. Over the past 10 years, José has been focusing on EU grant compliance audits and verifications, mostly in the context of EU external aid programmes. José is Ethikos Advisors’ associate audit partner.