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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Refinitiv hosted a two-webinar series on the blurring lines between Compliance and Sustainability and the impact on Third-Party Risk programmes. At a time when governments are seen as too slow to respond to some critical changes in society, will Corporates increase their focus on the pressing issues on the agenda, responding to clients’ interests and public opinion? How is this impacting Third-Party Risk programmes? Who “owns them” and how should their focus evolve?

During this first of two webinar series on Third-Party Risk, we discussed the following topics:

  • The Why and how of the convergence between Compliance and Sustainability
  • Corruption, human rights abuses and environmental regulation. Why companies need to worry about these issues in their supply chain and in their Third-Party Risk relationships? Who owns that responsibility today and who will own it tomorrow?
  • Where is the regulatory framework heading in terms of Corruption and the ESG agenda? What are the regulatory drivers for Third-Party Risk today and how can we expect them to change?
  • If reputational matters are increasingly important, what types of topics are at the top of corporations’ agendas and how will this differ across industries? 

María Sanchez-Marin moderated this webinar. Maria is currently a Performance Director for Enhanced Due Diligence at Refinitiv. She was previously responsible for driving the global Third Party Risk and Compliance Learning businesses at Thomson Reuters. Maria was also Chief Operating Officer of Thomson Reuters Foundation in charge of the Trust Conference - the annual event on the fight against human trafficking and slavery in the supply chain. At the Foundation, she also held roles as the founding Director of TrustLaw and worked at the International Crisis Group.


Speakers

Alison Taylor - Executive Director at Ethical Systems 

Alison Taylor is the Executive Director of Ethical Systems, a research collaboration housed at NYU. She is also a Senior Advisor at BSR, and an Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern School of Business. Alison has a long track record of consulting for large multinational companies, on strategy, sustainability, political and social risk, culture and behavior, human rights, ethics and compliance, stakeholder engagement, ESG, and anti-corruption. She is a 2019-20 member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption. Alison previously held leadership roles at BSR and Control Risks, and has worked at PwC, Transparency International, and IHS Global Insight. She has a BA from Balliol College, Oxford University, an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and an MA in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.

Robert Blood - Founder and Managing Director, Sigwatch

Robert is an expert on NGOs and activism. He has contributed numerous articles and papers to management and academic publications, and has been interviewed widely, from the Financial Times and BBC Television News to Reuters Television. He founded SIGWATCH after working at board level for public relations and issue management consultancies Fleishman-Hillard UK and for the Quentin Bell Organisation (now Chime). Before that he studied physics at Durham University in England. Robert has built SIGWATCH into the world's leading research and strategy consultancy on NGOs, supporting many of the world's leading multinationals, financial institutions and investment managers with data and analysis.  

Ibtissem Lassoued - Partner, Head of Advisory, Financial Crime, Al Tamimi & Co

Ibtissem Lassoued is a Partner in the Regional Financial Crime Practice at Al Tamimi & Company.  She graduated from the Sorbonne University (Paris) and joined Al Tamimi & Company in 2007 from the legal department of the French Group Vivendi, where she conducted primarily US litigation investigations. She has extensive experience advising a variety of clientele on a spectrum of white-collar crime matters which have spanned the globe.  These include complex corporate fraud, tracing, freezing and recovery of assets, anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism, extradition (acting both for States submitting extradition requests and individuals who are subject of a request) and mutual judicial cooperation, including issues relating to foreign judgments and Interpol notices.

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