Dr. Cynthia Sallah, is the Deputy Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency, responsible for Technical and Field Operations. She is a Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAG), is a successful Chartered Accountant with over twenty years of experience in auditing and accounting. Her experience cuts across a variety of industries from start-up businesses to financial management and company closures. She has hands on experience of providing professional advice in strategic sectors such as financial reporting, taxation, auditing, forensic accounting, corporate finance and insolvency. She is an innovative thinker when dealing with risks or opportunities and is adept at thinking outside the box.

Having joined KPMG Ghana, a global professional services firm, as a Trainee Accountant in 1998 after her first degree in Business Administration, she combined her training with the pursuit of a second degree in Finance at the University of Ghana Business School, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 2003 and graduating with an MBA in Finance in 2004. Cynthia was an accredited facilitator of KPMG run courses.

Cynthia was seconded to the KPMG Manchester office in the United Kingdom between October 2006 and May 2009. Prior to her secondment, Cynthia had three years of post-qualification experience in providing audit services to leading financial institutions in Ghana. Her clients included: The Bank of Ghana; Barclays Bank; Standard Chartered Bank; Standard Chartered West African Shared Service Centre (Operational review); The Ghana Stock Exchange; Centre for Democratic Development (A non-Governmental Organisation), DANIDA Health Sector Support Project, EU (Various funded projects in Ghana); Tema Lube Oil Company Ltd (Production of Lubrication Oils and Greases); Tema Shipyard and Dry-dock Limited, Shell Ghana Limited.

Her dual role as engagement and compliance Manager for the Manchester office put her in charge of a number of entities as well as supporting KPMG UK run audit courses for a number of offices across the UK. Cynthia re-joined KPMG Ghana in May 2009 and worked as an Audit Manager in the Consumer and Industrial Market, Information, Communication and Entertainment Audit Unit. She rose to the position of a Senior Manager in audit and subsequently moved to head the firm’s Practice Management unit until her exit in 2024.

In December 2018, Cynthia graduated with a doctorate in Business Administration and won the Best Woman Thesis Award (Optimus Mulierem) for the Graduating Class. She has since co-authored three published articles. She earned a Master of Arts in Ministry at the Trinity Theological Seminary in 2023 and holds an Executive Certificate in Counselling and is a licensed Counsellor with the Ghana Psychology Council. During her studies at the University of Ghana, she was an active member of the University Christian Fellowship.

Cynthia sits on the Board of Ghana Integrity Initiative as a member, a member of the Parliamentary Services Audit Committee. She is the Vice–President of the 2024-2026 Council of ICAG and holds a number of positions at the Institute. She has been a guest visiting lecturer to the accounting department of the University of Ghana business School (UGBS), and a part-time lecturer at the Department of Accounting of the UGBS and holds a number of awards to her name.