{"id":8674,"date":"2021-07-01T20:02:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T20:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8674"},"modified":"2025-06-18T21:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:32:36","slug":"robert-taft","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/person\/robert-taft\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert J. Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<div class=\"row d-flex\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"flex-first col-lg-4\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8652 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Taft-2024.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"text-left mb-2 flex-md-last flex-lg-unordered col-lg-8\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<p><b>Robert Taft<\/b> is the chief audit executive of the University of Central Florida. He is responsible for providing oversight for the conduct and operations of all internal audit activities, coordinating external audits and supporting the system of internal controls and risk management across the university.<\/p>\n<p>Robert has over 22 years of audit experience and led the internal audit functions for two NYSE publicly traded organizations in the insurance industry. He has a bachelor of arts in government and international relations from the University of Notre Dame and a master of science in accounting from the State University of New York at Albany.<\/p>\n<p>He is a certified internal auditor and certified bank auditor. He also has a certification in control self-assessment from the Institute of Internal Auditors. Robert started with University Audit in January 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityaudit.ucf.edu\/\">Visit the University Audit website<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp;","protected":false},"featured_media":10483,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8674","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_group-cabinet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Robert J. Taft | Office of the President<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robert J. 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