Our Mission

To assist University management and governing boards in identifying, managing and mitigating risk and ensuring risk management processes are integrated into the University’s business practices and academic and research activities.

Welcome to the Risk Management & Audit Services (RMAS) Web site. Our Web site is designed to give the Harvard Univeristy community a better sense of who we are, what we do, as well as tools and best practices that we offer. As our name indicates, we focus on risk. Our objective is to improve the effectiveness of risk management and control processes at the University. We consider risk broadly and include within our scope all activity posing financial, operational, technological, regulatory and reputational risk to the University.

With our audit and insurance services we partner with management in evaluating risk mitigation practices, safeguarding of assets, compliance with laws, regulations and policies and reliable information. We serve the University by upholding the highest professional standards, recruiting and training professional staff and communicating best practices in internal controls.

We hope that the information provided on this site provides useful information and tools. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Gail McDermott
Director of Risk Management and Audit Services