Thomas Nii Ashaley Thompson-Aryee is the Deputy Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency, responsible for Finance, Administration and Support Services. He is Chartered Accountant with several years’ experience in Internal Auditing, Financial Management and Institutional Capacity Development.

Thomas is a strong leader, with experience in developing and managing high performing teams. His skills include developing financial policies and procedures and setting up functional professional internal audit units.

He facilitated the development and implementation of the framework for the professional practice of internal auditing in the Public Sector. This framework includes quality assurance review procedures as well as method to determine the status of implementation of audit recommendations by Heads of MDAs and MMDAs.

Thomas led a team of internal audit professionals to South Africa to provide a country presentation on internal audit practice in Ghana organised by Inwet Institute of Germany. Thomas was also the team lead that assisted in the development of Enterprise Risk Management framework for Public Institutions in Botswana organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat.  He also led a team to Edmonton, Alberta-Canada in for Job Shadowing on Enterprise Risk Management.

Thomas holds an MBA in Strategic and Project Management from the Paris Graduate School of Management. He holds accreditation in Quality Assessment/Validation from the Institute of Internal Auditors.

He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana), the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and the Project Management Institute. He serves on Audit Committees in four (4) Public Institutions.