Roland Malan
Co-owner
Excellence in Government Audit and Performance Practices

Principle
Sandpiper Consulting


Mr. Malan is a co-owner of EGAPP (Excellence in Government Audit and Performance Practices) and an active trainer for the company.  He is also the principle of Sandpiper Consulting, a business developed to assist government agencies in the areas of performance based management, performance auditing, investigative management and general management issues.

Mr. Malan recently retired from being Executive Director for the Association of Inspectors General, an organization dedicated assisting Inspectors General in being successful and growing the profession.  He is also retired as Inspector General for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York.  His responsibilities there included independent performance audits and investigations of all properties and operations of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.  Prior to his appointment to this position, he was Assistant Deputy Comptroller for the New York State Comptroller - a position overseeing the conduct and reporting of performance audits of all state agencies and state public authorities.  His early career included seventeen years in the King County (WA) Auditors Office culminating in appointment as King County Auditor. Responsibilities there included oversight of both performance and financial audits.

Mr. Malan has earned a Ph.D. and an MBA; is a Certified Inspector General, a Certified Government Financial Manager, and a Certified Fraud Examiner.  He is affiliated with the Association of Inspectors General (AIG), the Association of Government Accountants (AGA), the Association of Local Government Auditors (ALGA), the Intergovernmental Government Auditors Forum (NIAF), and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).  He also serves on the Association of Government Accounting’s Ethics Board and has formerly served on the Comptroller’s Government Auditing Standards Advisory Board and currently serves on the GASB Service Efforts and Accomplishments Advisory Committee.  While at the MTA, he was Chairman of the AIG Principles and Standards Committee and led the Committee in the development of a leading edge set of principles and standards for offices of inspector general.  He remains the chair of that committee.  He has published numerous articles, had his work included in a Governmental Auditing Handbook which is revised each year for the profession, and has co-authored a landmark text in performance auditing published by the Governmental Finance Officers Association.


Last modified: March 12, 2008