Booking Information
Once you have booked your course, the link to the recording will be available
in your "My Account" area.
Please be aware that you will have access to this course for 180 days from
the date of purchase
Online courses cannot be booked on behalf of someone
else. Access will only be granted to the person completing the online
order.
Who should attend
This course was recorded in November 2023 and is
suitable for all professionals involved in corporate governance, risk management and/or
compliance roles, including members in business and in practice, current and
future business leaders, management, executives, non-executive directors,
advisors, and consultants.
Course overview
The conference will bring together a diverse range of expert speakers and
business leaders to share practical insights and key updates on emerging
challenges and opportunities impacting governance, risk and/or compliance in
listed, private and public sector organisations. Speakers will provide practical
insights and discussion on important topics including:
- Emerging challenges impacting anti-fraud and anti-corruption measures and
insights on how to equip risk and compliance functions to tackle the impact of
'Grand Corruption' on all organisations (Richard Bistrong, Front-Line
Anti-Bribery LLC)
- The future of internal audit and the latest developments on International
Internal Auditing (IIA) Standards (Pascale Vandenbussche, Secretary
General , European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing)
- Insights on progressing sustainability initiatives and achieving goals
within an organisation and tackling risk of greenwashing (Jill Shaw, A
& L Goodbody)
- Panel discussion - Featuring Jill Shaw, Deirdre
Ryan & Neil Menzies
- A discussion on Individual accountability versus collective responsibility
and what it means for governance and compliance frameworks of any
organisation.
- Deploying AI machine learning and Data Analytic tools in your business.
- How leaders can tackle the various issues above, and to explore some of
the challenges and how these might be overcome.
Key learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to: Have an appreciation
of the key updates and emerging challenges and opportunities impacting
governance, risk and/or compliance in listed, private and public sector
organisations.
Speaker Bios
Pascale Vandenbussche -Pascale Vandenbussche She is Managing Director
of Meilleurs Conseils Financiers. She was Senior Manager with the global
consultancy Accenture for the Finance and Performance Management Product Line.
She started work as an External Auditor at KPMG before moving to a division of
the industrial conglomerate Union Minière as an Internal Audit Manager. Pascale
teaches Finance in several business schools in Belgium and France. In 2010, she
was appointed Secretary of the Board of ECIIA. Since October 2011, she has been
Secretary General of ECIIA.
Jill Shaw -As ESG & Sustainability Lead, Jill supports A&L
Goodbody's clients and practice groups on ESG and sustainability matters. She
has a particular focus on sustainability reporting and disclosure requirements.
Jill has extensive experience advising clients on legal and regulatory matters,
principally in the asset management and investment funds sector. In addition,
she has worked as a senior knowledge lawyer with a focus on compliance with the
various European sustainability initiatives applicable to the asset management
sector. Jill is also a lecturer on the Law Society of Ireland's Diploma in
Finance Law, including on sustainable finance.
Deirdre Ryan - Director of Sustainability and Quality Assurance,
Origin Green at Bord Bia.
Richard Bistrong - He started his career as a
successful international sales vice-president of a global corporation &
ended with my pleading guilty to violating the FCPA & UK trade offenses. As
part of his cooperation agreements, he worked in an undercover capacity with the
FBI & City of London Police, before serving a 14-month federal prison term,
returning home in 2013. Since 2014, he has been working with organizations
through his consultancy, Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC. In-person & virtually,
he has presented to hundreds of diverse global multinationals, focusing on anti-
bribery, ethics, & compliance challenges, sharing, his front-line experience
& perspective on real-world corruption & compliance risk.
Níall Fitzgerald, FCA. Head of Ethics and Governance, Chartered
Accountants Ireland - Níall brings together technical expertise, experience
and insights from his role with the Institute and his roles as a non-executive
director for an Irish Charity and chair of its governance and risk committee,
Trustee for an occupational pension scheme, co-founder of Chapter Zero Ireland,
advisory member on several global professional accountancy committees/task
forces, and Institute of Banking faculty member with focus on financial service
governance, risk, sustainability, culture and ethics.
Neil Menzies -Neil Menzies is Director of Sustainability with the real
estate company Hibernia Real Estate Group Ltd. With over 15 years working in the
area of sustainability, he now has responsibility for managing the
sustainability efforts across Hibernia's €1.3bn property portfolio, all of which
is in Dublin. and planning for future ESG trends and regulations. Before joining
Hibernia, Neil worked as Environment and Sustainability Manager with Luas
operator Transdev. He has also worked extensively in consultancy and in the
waste industry. He has experience of working internationally having managed
large-scale projects in the UK and the Middle East and has a wealth of knowledge
across sustainability, infrastructure and facilities management/operations, QEHS
Management Systems, energy management and business development.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding this or any other CPD course or
requirements, please feel free to contact the team here or call us at (+353) 01 523 3930