Focus on Corruption: Seven Views to Consider

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1 Focus on Corruption: Seven Views to Consider Panel Chair Peter Morris CA PPB Advisory Peter is a Chartered accountant and a of the PPB Forensic practice. He has over 27 years experience in investigation into fraud, corruption, employee misconduct and fraud risk management in Australia and overseas. Peter has delivered forensic services since 1995 with PPB and KPMG Forensic and was a member of the Australian Federal Police for 12 years. Panel Facilitator Tom McLeod CA Victorian Convenor Transparency International Tom McLeod is one of the world s leading Chief Audit Executives. He was most recently the Global Head of Internal Audit for Rio Tinto, one of the world s largest mining companies. He has extensive governance, risk and audit experience in telecommunications, utilities, mining, insurance, manufacturing and professional services during which time he has reported directly to Board Committee, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer levels.he has extensive work experience in Australia, Asia, United Kingdom and North America and broader work experience in Europe and India. He was recently a Board Member Institute of Internal Auditors Australia. He holds a Master of Business Administration and is a Chartered Accountant.

2 Panellists Dr David Chaikin Associate Professor The University of Sydney Business School Dr David Chaikin is an academic at the University of Sydney where he teaches banking and finance law, international financial crime, and the law of asset protection. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the Law Faculty at the University of Cambridge and a Masters of Law from Yale Law School, as well as degrees in law and commerce from the University of New South Wales. His books include Financial Crime Risks, Globalisation and the Professions (Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013), Corruption and Money Laundering: A Symbiotic Relationship (New York, Palgrave 2009), and Money Laundering, Tax Evasion and Tax Havens (2009). David is also a practising lawyer specialising in transnational litigation, particularly banking, corporate and financial services laws. In one of his more celebrated engagements David spent seven years assisting the Philippine Government in tracking and recovering the illicit assets of Ferdinand Marcos. He has previously held the positions of Senior Assistant Secretary and Head of the International Criminal Law Enforcement and Security Branch in the Australian Attorney-General s Department, and Senior Fraud Officer of the London-based diplomatic body, the Commonwealth Secretariat. Merran Kelsall FCA Chairman & CEO Auditing and Assurance Standards Board Merran is the current Chairman of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AUASB) and has a portfolio of independent directorships. She is also a member of the IAASB and the NZAuASB. Merran has considerable directorship and corporate governance experience, including working in audit, risk and compliance committees. Her other appointments include Director, RACV Ltd and Superpartners Pty Ltd and Chairman, Australian Health Service Alliance Ltd and Risk & Audit Committee of EPA Victoria. 2

3 Grahame Leonard OAM CA Director Transparency International Australia Grahame is a Director and the Immediate Past Honorary Chief Executive Officer of Transparency International Australia, the Australian arm of the international anti-corruption watchdog. TI is the only international nongovernmental organisation focusing exclusively on the issue of corruption believing that corruption is one of the greatest challenges of the contemporary world. His other appointments include Commissioner, Victorian Multicultural Commission and Chairman of the Health Media Group Pty Ltd amongst others. Grahame also holds numerous Non-Executive Director positions. With considerable experience as a lawyer, independent non-executive director, business consultant and part-time university lecturer Grahame s principal skills include strategic planning, negotiation, facilitation, mediation and business management. Nick McKenzie Journalist Fairfax Media Nick McKenzie is a Fairfax investigative journalist whose work appears regularly in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. He also works occasionally as a reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's 4 Corners television program. Nick has won Australia's highest journalism honour, the Walkley award, four times, for reporting on organised crime and corruption. While at the ABC, he worked on investigative stories for the 7.30 Report and 4 Corners, before joining The Age's investigative unit in In 2008, he won a Gold Quill and his second investigative reporting Quill for his work exposing the misconduct of one of Australia's leading surgeons. 3

4 Mini vandepol Baker & McKenzie Mini has more than 18 years of legal experience in advising and representing companies in a range of dispute and litigation matters. Mini joined Baker & McKenzie having headed up the legal section of ANZ Bank s Asset Management Group. Mini advises companies on compliance issues, including FCPA-related issues, bribery and corruptions risks, conflicts of interest and legal professional privilege. Mini's practice involves the provision of seamless global compliance advice and investigative services, combined with local knowledge. She is engaged to perform risk assessments and conduct compliance training; undertake third party and target due diligence; provide advice on the structure of transactions and business models; assist with sanctions and trade related compliance; conduct internal investigations (frequently involving the conduct of agents and other third parties); establish protocols necessary to protect legal professional privilege and to provide advice and solutions to manage suspected improper conduct, including associated issues that arise due to Australia's continuous disclosure obligations. Mini is the Asia Pacific Regional Chair of Baker & McKenzie's Dispute Resolution Practice Group and heads the Australian Anti-Bribery and Corruption team. Dawna Wright CA McGrathNicol Forensic Dawna is a of McGrathNicol Forensic and specialises in dispute advisory and investigation services. Dawna began her career as an auditor with Deloitte in Canada, where she first qualified as a Chartered Accountant before going on secondment to Paris. She began her specialisation in forensic accounting when she moved to New York, where she lived for three years. She has been in Australia for over 12 years and now has over 15 years of experience in forensic accounting, including several years as a leading the Victorian Forensic practice with a Big 4 firm. Dawna has led a wide range of matters as an independent expert witness, a consulting expert and an expert determiner. Dawna s forensic experience includes corporate investigations, financial statement restatements, and anti-bribery and corruption reviews. Her investigation experience includes reporting findings to Boards, Audit Committees, the 4

5 SEC, the DOJ, and ASIC. Her work in New York included the then-largest ever financial statement restatement in SEC history. Her anti-bribery and corruption work for global organisations has taken her as far afield as the Congo and Mauritania. Australian Federal Police (AFP) representative Overseas experiences indicate increasingly concerning trends including the likelihood of underreporting of fraud and corruption that ultimately may have significant commensurate impacts on market and public confidence, international reputation, and loss of public monies. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is proactively seeking to address those global corruption issues through bolstering efforts on detection of, and investigation into, these multi-dimensional crimes through increased intelligence, interagency liaison, and investigator training. The AFP s Fraud and Anti-Corruption (FAC) business area was established in February 2013 and enhances the AFP response to serious and complex fraud against the Commonwealth, including corruption, foreign bribery and complex identity crime. FAC consists of dedicated investigative teams in key regional AFP offices, including an Identity Security Strike Team based in Sydney. 5