Yvonne Reilly holds a Masters Commercii degree in Accounting Sciences from the University of South Africa and is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA). During 1986, after completing her audit articles, she took up a post as lecturer in the Department of Auditing at the University of South Africa (UNISA). From 1996 to 2007 she was actively involved in the development of internal audit modules for the specialised degree in Internal Auditing. During this period she was a member of the academic team which received IAEP status from the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) for their course material presented. She represented the Department of Auditing on the Faculty’s Non-Formal as well as Formal Tuition Committees. She has a wide experience in lecturing in a distance education environment in the fields of both external and internal auditing over a period of 20 years. She left UNISA at the end of 2007 to contribute time and effort to corporate governance in the public sector. She served as an audit committee member on the audit committee of the National Department of Human Settlements of South Africa under Ministerial leadership and assisted to steer the department onto the route of best practice in corporate governance. She joined the Department of Auditing at the University of Pretoria in June 2011 as a full time senior lecturer, presenting various under-graduate, post-graduate and MPhil Internal Auditing courses.

Her areas of interest are integrated /sustainability reporting and corporate governance in the public sector.