Lutz Kuehne

With nearly two decades of professional experience, including over 17 years dedicated to forensic services and compliance consulting, Lutz has a proven track record of leading large scale and complex investigations into fraud and corruption schemes as well as risk advisory projects for multinational firms and governmental entities throughout Europe, Africa and South America. His expertise spans financial analysis of large data volumes, forensic accounting, background investigation as well as litigation and assurance support. Lutz developed significant industry knowledge in sectors such as industrial solutions, energy, health and consumer, agribusiness, logistics and technology.

Since 2020, he has led ESG-focused assessments and developed solutions on supply chain compliance, resilience and governance as well as human rights audits on third parties and business partners for international entities.

Prior to joining Kroll, Lutz spent 15 years at EY Germany, Angola and Brazil. At EY, he led numerous compliance, investigations, risk management, internal audit and assurance projects for multinational and middle-market private companies.

Lutz holds an MBA in financial management, controlling and auditing from Fundação Getulio Vargas and has a postgraduate degree in international business from Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen/Germany, with studies at American University in Washington DC and University São Paulo in the areas of accounting, auditing and business management. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds a CFE certification. Currently, he is a visiting professor at FUNDACE/USP in Ribeirão Preto in Brazil, teaching governance, accountability and sustainability.