MOOC: Auditing waste management

Course team

Sigrid

Sigrid Rajangu, Auditor at the National Audit Office of Estonia

Sigrid has been working at the National Audit Office of Estonia for over 10 years, auditing the management of local governments as well as conducting performance audits in the environmental and agricultural fields. She has a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management. Sigrid has been also engaged in international training activities, for example, lecturing waste management basics at the International Centre for Environment Audit and Sustainable Development (iCED) in Jaipur.

Alar

Alar Jürgenson, Auditor at the National Audit Office of Estonia

Alar has audited waste, climate change, energy and mining issues for 10 years in the National Audit Office of Estonia. Before joining with the audit office, he worked for the Environmental Inspectorate carrying out control and monitoring duties on various environmental fields/topics (waste, water, air quality etc.). Alar participated in the EUROSAI WGEA cooperative audit on air quality (2019) and he also taken part of several EUROSAI and INTOSAI seminars and working groups on waste management and circular economy.

Airi Andresson, Audit Manager at the National Audit Office of Estonia

Airi has worked for the Estonian National Audit Office since 2006 as an auditor and an audit manager. Her current fields of responsibility are environmental and agriculture audits. She has been active in the environmental auditing community both on European and on international level, taking part in several co-operative audits and projects. She has taught environmental law for more than 10 years for the master students at the Tallinn University and is a board member of an NGO dealing with environmental law issues. Prior to her work as an auditor she worked in the legal department in the Estonian Ministry of the Environment.

Viire

Viire Viss, Senior Auditor at the National Audit Office of Estonia

Viire has been working in the National Audit Office of Estonia since 2009 in Performance Audit Department (conducting audits in environmental and agricultural areas) as senior auditor and audit manager. She has been a representative of NAOE in INTOSAI WGEA Steering Committee and led the INTOSAI WGEA research projects on market based instruments in environmental protection as well as the greening of audit offices. In her previous professional career she has been conducting several projects (incl. creating e-learning courses), trainings and lectures related to environmental management.

Tuuli Rasso, Auditor at the National Audit Office of Estonia

Tuuli has extensive experience in environmental governance and auditing. During her career at the National Audit Office of Estonia (NAOE)  she has conducted environmental audits in Performance Audit Department as auditor and audit manager. She has been an advisor and the head of INTOSAI WGEA secretariat and was formerly also the head of  EUROSAI WGEA secretariat. She has been involved in numerous national and international (coordinated) audits and organised many international training events and seminars on environmental auditing both in INTOSAI WGEA and EUROSAI WGEA and at the International Centre for Environment Audit and Sustainable Development (iCED) in Jaipur, India.
Krislin Kivi

Krislin Kivi, Head of International Relations at the National Audit Office of Estonia

Krislin was an Advisor of International Relations (2014-2018), mainly focusing on organising and coordinating the activities of EUROSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA). She organised numerous trainings and seminars on different topics of environmental auditing, mostly in EUROSAI WGEA. Krislin was also involved in conducting a training course ‘Auditing Infrastructure’ in AFROSAI WGEA meeting in Dakar in 2015. Since then she worked in IT field, focussing on information security and IT risk management, and has now returned to the National Audit Office of Estonia as the Head of International Relations.

Kaire Kesküla, Head of International Relations at the National Audit Office of Estonia

Kaire worked at the Secretariat of INTOSAI WGEA (2010-2013) and thereafter also participated in audits conducted by the environmental and infrastructure audit teams of NAOE. She has experience in organising several environment-related training events and meetings as well as international (coordinated) audits. Kaire is also an e-learning specialist certified by the INTOSAI Development Initiative in 2019.

Technical design:

Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Tartu

Contact and feedback

Kaire Kesküla
National Audit Office of Estonia
Kiriku 2/4, 15013 Tallinn
ESTONIA
Tel: +372 640 0100
e-mail: kaire.keskula@riigikontroll.ee

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