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  • TRACK H

    9H Building Effective Anti-Fraud and Corruption Programs Globally: The Value of Independent Assessments

    Tuesday, June 19 | 1:50-3:05 PM


    Level: Advanced

    Recommended Prerequisite: Knowledge of, and experience with, corporate ethics and compliance programs and anti-corruption activities

    Field of Study: Management Services

    The U.S. and many European countries are requiring that companies create effective ethics and compliance programs to address bribery, corruption and ethical failures. This session will explore the value of using independent assessments as a tool to proactively examine the strength of a company’s ethical culture and the effectiveness of its anti-fraud and corruption activities.

    Presented by the former inspector general of a U.S. federal agency who now serves as an independent corporate monitor and assesses ethics and compliance programs globally, the session will provide you with real-life case studies and scenarios to teach companies how to prepare for and maximize the value of engaging an independent assessment of their corporate anti-fraud and corruption program

    You Will Learn How To:

    • Identify the characteristics of an effective anti-fraud and corruption program through the eyes of the regulators and law enforcement
    • Determine the benefits of having an external compliance assessment to strengthen ethical culture and identify vulnerabilities and risks
    • Examine the corporate return on investment that external compliance assessments can create by helping to avoid or mitigate the potential costs of litigation and the impact of government sanctions
    Eric R. Feldman, CFE, CIG, CCEP-I

    Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Corporate Ethics and Compliance Programs, Affiliated Monitors, Inc.

    Eric Feldman joined Affiliated Monitors after retiring from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2011. Feldman had a distinguished 32-year career with both the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government. He has served in executive positions with Offices of Inspector General at the Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, and CIA, and was the longest serving Inspector General of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from 2003-2009. At the NRO, he presided over a highly successful procurement fraud prevention and detection program, widely recognized by the Department of Justice as a model throughout the federal government.

    In 2009, Feldman was appointed Senior Advisor to the Director of the NRO for Procurement Integrity where he helped the Director ensure that the NRO's industrial partners were meeting their integrity and ethics responsibilities required by law and federal regulations. His work involved the real-time assessment of corporate ethics and compliance programs at over 40 government contractors including some of the world's largest corporations in the aerospace, military and public contracting fields.

    During his tenure as a Federal Inspector General, Feldman worked with the Department of Justice in establishing programs to prevent and detect fraud in the federal acquisition program. As Inspector General, he helped to recover millions of taxpayer dollars in matters involving overpricing, kickbacks and other forms of fraud.

    A former Senior Intelligence Service Officer, Feldman is a 1995 graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, and is both a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Inspector General (CIG). In 2016 he successfully completed the Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional – International (CCEP-I) examination, which certifies his expert knowledge of international compliance regulations and processes. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Association of Inspectors General, and was the founding President of the California Chapter. In 2015, he was appointed as a Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Suspension and Debarment Committee.

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  • Eric R. Feldman, CFE, CIG, CCEP-I

    Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Corporate Ethics and Compliance Programs, Affiliated Monitors, Inc.

    Eric Feldman joined Affiliated Monitors after retiring from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2011. Feldman had a distinguished 32-year career with both the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government. He has served in executive positions with Offices of Inspector General at the Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, and CIA, and was the longest serving Inspector General of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from 2003-2009. At the NRO, he presided over a highly successful procurement fraud prevention and detection program, widely recognized by the Department of Justice as a model throughout the federal government.

    In 2009, Feldman was appointed Senior Advisor to the Director of the NRO for Procurement Integrity where he helped the Director ensure that the NRO's industrial partners were meeting their integrity and ethics responsibilities required by law and federal regulations. His work involved the real-time assessment of corporate ethics and compliance programs at over 40 government contractors including some of the world's largest corporations in the aerospace, military and public contracting fields.

    During his tenure as a Federal Inspector General, Feldman worked with the Department of Justice in establishing programs to prevent and detect fraud in the federal acquisition program. As Inspector General, he helped to recover millions of taxpayer dollars in matters involving overpricing, kickbacks and other forms of fraud.

    A former Senior Intelligence Service Officer, Feldman is a 1995 graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, and is both a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Inspector General (CIG). In 2016 he successfully completed the Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional – International (CCEP-I) examination, which certifies his expert knowledge of international compliance regulations and processes. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Association of Inspectors General, and was the founding President of the California Chapter. In 2015, he was appointed as a Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Suspension and Debarment Committee.

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