Ridley, Jeffrey

born 1930 A British internal auditing academic, author, and practitioner. Since 1991 Ridley has been Visiting Professor of Auditing at South Bank University in London. Along with *Andrew Chambers and *Gerald Vinten, Ridley has been one of the United Kingdom’s leading advocates of internal auditing. A former president of the *Institute of Internal Auditors UK and Ireland, he is the author of many articles on internal auditing, and of the books International Quality Standards: Implications for Internal Auditing (1996), coauthored with Kystyna Stephens, and Leading Edge Internal Auditing (1998), coauthored with Andrew Chambers. In addition to internal auditing, his other areas of interest include *corporate governance and *quality management. Further reading: Ridley and Stephens (1996); Ridley and Chambers, A. (1998)