Eric Hespenheide

Global Leader, Climate Change and Sustainability
Audit and Enterprise Risk Services
Deloitte & Touche, LLP   

Eric Hespenheide is a senior partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP with over 25 years of distinguished leadership and client service experience. He serves as the Global Leader of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) member firms' Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Services Group and managing partner of the global Internal Audit Practice.

Eric is leading efforts in marketplace research, coordinating an integrated service offering and helping clients solve complex challenges with sustainability programs. His leadership has led to significant growth, resulting in the practice being widely recognized as a leading provider of internal audit services among Fortune 1000 companies. In addition, he currently serves as the Lead Partner or Advisory Partner on a number of global engagements in a variety of industries.

Eric joined the Detroit practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP in 1977 and was named global managing partner of Internal Audit Services in 2001. Prior to 2001, he served as the Assurance and Advisory managing partner for the Great Lakes Region and as an audit partner for large global manufacturing companies.

He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants. Eric also serves on the national board of directors of the United Cerebral Palsy Association and the Dean's Advisory Council at Louisiana State University. Eric has been actively involved in working with the Institute of Internal Auditors since 2001 in a variety of capacities. As a board trustee for the IIA’s Research Foundation, Eric plays an active role in contributing to and strengthening the internal auditing profession. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of internal auditing at various forums around the world.