Edward Rowe is a governance, assurance and risk executive with more than twenty years of experience advising boards, investment leaders and executive teams across Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the United States. A Fellow Chartered Accountant (ICAEW), his career spans financial services, global manufacturing, sovereign wealth and private equity, giving him a broad perspective on how organisations grow, scale and govern themselves.

Ed began his career at Grant Thornton before joining KPMG’s Audit Committee Institute, where he advised non-executive directors on governance, risk oversight and corporate accountability. He later moved into industry, building and leading internal audit functions and delivering assurance across multinational organisations.

In 2010, he relocated to Abu Dhabi and has since spent over fifteen years working within one of the world’s leading sovereign investment platforms. His work has taken him inside semiconductor fabrication plants, renewable energy projects, technology companies and global investment portfolios, providing a rare, behind-the-scenes view of how strategy, risk, culture and execution operate in practice.

Today, Ed leads internal audit and risk management functions within a sovereign private equity environment overseeing hundreds of billions of dollars in assets.

The Standard Model for Business emerged from a simple observation across his career: talented professionals often lack a clear, universal way to understand how businesses actually work. The model was created to provide that clarity.