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:
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 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 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.