Ursula Schmidt is former Executive Vice President in Audit & Compliance for RTL Group, having led for many years the international group´s Internal Audit and Compliance practice. She held senior positions in strategy and controlling at RTL Group and served as chairman of the audit committee of Channel Five in the UK. 
Ursula is a Board member of the IIA Luxembourg and serves as an independent non-executive director on several boards in Luxembourg. She is a regular conference speaker and publishes extensively.
She received the Internal Audit Beacon Award. Earlier, Richard Chambers acknowledged her as one of the “top leaders in the profession to follow in 2023”.