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Executive Education – Corporate Governance

How to Manage Compliance and Ethics in a Changing World?

Executive Education – Corporate Governance

How to Manage Compliance and Ethics in a Changing World?

March 2, 2023

Date

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Time

RM 2,500*

Program Fee

N/A

Format

Overview

Ethics and compliance are among the areas under the most tension today. On the one hand, society, investors, and regulators have heightened considerably what they expect of companies, and this increasingly has ethics and compliance dimensions. On the other hand, the cost and complexity of compliance has been increasing dramatically, creating budgetary, talent, and other challenges for organizations.

Even the question of what profile will be needed in the future for those in ethics and compliance functions is undergoing major rethinking. This program offers participants the opportunity, in a time efficient manner, to deepen their understanding of key trends and practices in the area of ethics and compliance.

This includes the latest learnings on how to increase the effectiveness of the Compliance Officer personally and of Compliance as a function, including through the use of behavioral science and the notion of the Return on Compliance. The program also touches on the intersect of compliance and risk management, including in terms of operational risk and emerging risk methodologies.

Also covered is the governance of compliance, including the Compliance Officer’s relationship to the CEO and the Board of Directors. An important new dimension will also be explored: what demands on compliance will come from the ESG area? And vice-versa? The program is interactive and uses simulations, case studies, and other techniques to re-enforce learning.

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  • The larger context – the evolution of how we think about compliance
  • Models and options for organizing, managing, and governing compliance, beyond the
    Three Lines of Defense
  • What is CVE and how it is affecting traditional compliance tools such as codes of conduct,
    compliance training, and whistleblowing?
  • Case study presentations and learnings
  • Cross-industry compliance officers
  • Those involved in ethics, compliance and related areas.
  • Those who supervise ethics, compliance and related areas such as regulators, board members and executive managers.
Gabe Shawn Varges

Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Asia School of Business

Faculty Profile

Gabe Shawn Varges is the Senior Partner, HCM International, and Chairman of the GECN Group, Switzerland and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Asia School of Business.

Mr. Varges has extensive international experience as an executive, regulator, academic, and advisor. He works with companies and authorities around the world on the interconnection of strategy, corporate governance, board effectiveness, leadership, culture, ethics, compliance, ESG, performance management, compensation, and regulation.

In addition to his private sector and academic work, Mr. Varges’  experience includes serving as Head of Governance of the Swiss combined banking, securities, and insurance regulator. There, among other things, he supervised financial institutions and represented the authority on various international bodies, including the OECD, BCBS, IAIS, and the Financial Stability Board, leading or contributing to various cross-border expert taskforces among regulators. Earlier, he served in senior executive positions with major multinationals.

Mr. Varges has served on various boards and is currently Chairman of Ethics & Compliance Switzerland.  An author of multiple publications, Mr. Varges has taught at several universities. He is a Juris Doctor graduate of Harvard and holds B.A. and MALD degrees. At Harvard, he served as Teaching Fellow and Tutor, and was part of the Harvard Negotiation Project.

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How to Manage Compliance and Ethics in a Changing World?

March 2, 2023

RM 2,500*

*excludes Sales & Service Tax (8%)

RM2,500.00

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