Sven Hayn

Sven became a member of the IPAE in January 2026. His international career includes board and senior executive roles in executive management of a professional services firm, in client-service, and in academia. Until July 2022 Sven served as Managing Partner for Assurance Strategy of EY Germany. As audit partner he looked after multinational public interest entities (PIEs) and chaired EY's IFRS Desk for EMEIA (2002 – 2011).

In the profession, he was a member of the German Accounting Standard Setter (2004 – 2011; 2016 – 2021) and serves the current chairman of the WG "Statutory audit regulation and professional principles" (2019 – today) with the German Auditing at the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW).

Sven studied Business Administration in Lüneburg and Saarbrücken (both Germany), received his PhD in Business Administration from Saarland University and has an active professorship at Hamburg University. Also, the Tongji University in Shanghai granted Sven an honorary professorship.

Currently, Sven serves clients as strategic advisor to corporate governance tasks at board level. Sven is a German CPA and US CPA (Illinois) and member of the respective professional organizations.