speakers

Per Lekvall is a Board member of the Swedish Corporate Governance Board, the body within the Swedish self-regulation system responsible for the Swedish Corporate Governance Code. He holds a masters degree from the Gothenburg School of Economics and Management and has performed studies as a guest student in the doctoral programmes of the Carnegie-Mellon and Standford universities.

After a career in international business and management consulting, he has devoted most of the last decades to corporate governance, first as CEO of the Swedish Academy of Board Directors and during the last ten years in key roles for the development, monitoring and management of the Swedish Code.

Jeffrey Avina, Director of Middle East and Africa, Microsoft Citizenship and Community Affairs. Jeffrey is responsible for setting Microsoft's corporate social responsibility strategy in 79 countries, linking activities to government and donor expenditures in health, education, governance, and disaster management. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jeffrey was director of operations of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna from 2006 to 2008. For two years previously, he was deputy director for Africa and deputy assistant secretary general of the United Nations Development Program. In other assignments with the U.N., he was resident coordinator for four years in Honduras, deputy resident representative for five in Laos and assistant resident representative for five in Bhutan. Jeffrey earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University and holds an MPA from HKS and a JD from Harvard Law School. Jeffrey will conduct the CSR Happy Hour Workshop and Discussion.

Luka Lu, obtained her law degree from Peking University and worked for an American law firm for more than two years and C&C Law Office - the first Chinese law firm specializing in international legal services. She has cutting edge legal knowledge and experience in banking and finance law, company law, government law, joint venture laws, tax law, labour law, etc. She has helped to establish many foreign invested companies including joint ventures, wholly-foreign-owned companies, as well as holding companies, in the fields of telecommunication, media, mining, medical care, beverage, media, aviation, etc.. She has worked on many power projects; she has represented many banks and financial institutions in their lending in China and launching their new financial products in China; and she has worked on many listing project; she is also on the long-term retainers appointed by many international companies and organizations to handle their daily corporate matters in China. In the recent years, Luka Lu has worked on many merger and acquisition projects for foreign companies, and she was invited to deliver speeches in various conferences including conferences in London. Luka Lu has been chosen to be including conferences in London. Luka Lu has been chosen to be included in the 2002 edition of AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers, which is the only authoritative published book on leading Asian lawyers.

Is the CEO of Money Transfer International with wide experience in all major Fraud and Corruption problems throughout the world. She is a special adviser to a number of dignitaries and a widely sought after speaker at all Major Conferences on several Corporate Governance issues. Lady Olga is a former British MP for the Conservative party. Prior to her political career she was a reporter for the Fleet Street News Agency, a columnist in the London Sunday Express (1967-1991). In 1998 she became a contributor to the Daily Mail.

Lady Olga brings together a remarkable amount of first hand international knowledge on Fraud, Bribery and Corruptions issues to the Copenhagen Compliance and their respective tangible solutions, that are based on her experience and understanding of politics and political issues.

Amit has a huge expertise on how justice systems in different parts of the world could be improved, particularly with a view to improving the economic situation in various (developing) countries, promoting the rule of law and fighting poverty. Due to his extensive experience as an international expert Amit is perfectly capable to develop and launch new justice sector support projects. Many admire Amit especially for his ability to collect the right persons for his project teams and his inspiring leadership. As a result of this, a successful implementation of the various justice projects is always guaranteed. Also his talent to associate governments, including judicial authorities, NGO's, European and international organizations with each other should not remain unmentioned.

Hanna Danwall is the Competition Compliance Officer at Maersk Group. She has a Master in Law from King's College London, University of London and a Master of Laws, specialized in Public International Law, EC Competition law and Enforcement of EC law from Lund (Sweden) University. Hanna has extensive experience Competition law, State aid, Public Procurement and regulatory issues as well as general EU law (such as anti-dumping duties and excise duties).

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Kersi Porbunderwalla is a Corporate Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) consultant with extensive experience in analysing, documenting, structuring, processes and procedures, risk assessment and project management. He is also a recognized speaker and GRC expert on operational and IT issues throughout Scandinavia and Europe. His consultancy, courses and development of compliance tools is based on over 30 years of accounting & finance experience as CFO/CEO in Blue Chip corporations. After his early retirement as Business Controller from ExxonMobil in 2005, Kersi has solved governance, risk, compliance and IT issues with several major multinationals like IBM, Shell and Volvo. During his professional career in GRC related activities, he has also;

• Custom-made Compliance, Risk and Governance, ISO20000 and ITIL presentations for management of IBM, Danish Financial Analyst Association, Shell, Ängpannaforeningen, Resouces Global Professionals, Lundin Mining, NetCompany, Encore, Software Innovation, US Embassy, Skanska and several others
• Acted as Principal Keynote speaker on Compliance, Risk and Governance conferences in Warsaw, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo

Kersi is graduate in Accounting and Finance, member of the Danish Financial Analyst Association, Confederation of Danish Industries, Danish Management Council, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Erik Rundcrantz de la Motte is a highly qualified senior manager with +25 years of experience. Extensive operational and managerial expertise in business administration, corporate treasury and banking. Wide-ranging proven experience in developing businesses and of organizing, implementing and launching processes in a global environment. Experienced in building and leading organizations, teams and projects in complex matrix organizations. Coaching leadership based on openness, clarity and structure in which the motivation of and employee development is a priority. Highly creative, proactive and analytical while at the same time structured and profit oriented with a strong commitment and with a high integrity. An experienced manager, articulate and confident, a strong and practiced communicator who establishes stable and mutually respectful relationships at all levels.

Ralph has 15 years in management, risk management, change management, internal audit, and governance. He has experience in defining and implementing risk management on a group wide basis, establishing new departments and make effective adjustments to organizations. The companies he has worked for have been in very different situations such as growth, turnaround and growth.

Ralph has a solid understanding of the business as a whole and the customers’ central role for the future of a company and experience from very different production and service industries, where the customers are operating in both B2B and B2C market, nationally as well as globally. The corporate strategic challenges were very different, ranging from increased profit and competitive improvement to real business development.

Ralph has a strong educational background with three graduate degrees from leading European universities .

Dr. Cristina Ungureanu has a PhD in Banking and Finance, Degree in Economics and Business Administration, Master in International Affairs. She has over 14 years of experience in corporate governance analyses, consultation, advisory, project management with a broad global experience and ongoing exposure to international corporate environments and is a recognised expert and thought leader on global corporate governance issues.

• Deep knowledge of board dynamics, of investor advocacy, corporate governance and sustainability
• Experience in evaluating governance policies and board quality and performance, executive compensation practices, shareholder resolutions, engagement between corporations and shareholders
• Developing best practice standards and governance frameworks at corporate and institutional levels
• Compliance: review corporate context against governance regulation to validate the extent of compliance
• Contributor to corporate governance conferences, forums and panels, presenting global corporate governance trends and developments to institutional, corporate and investor audience
• Author of several articles and policy papers on corporate governance and financial regulation

Her corporate specialties include: Investor activism, ESG, Investor Relations, Financial regulation, Executive remuneration, Board Evaluation, International Corporate Governance principles and practices,

Andrew, General Manager for the EMEA Region, has been involved in the development and implementation of compliance risk assessments, developing compliance programmes for multinational companies and conducting due diligence background screening. Andrew has also been involved in conducting health checks, audits, reviews, IntegrityCircles™ and other compliance assessments in multiple countries with a focus on FCPA compliance, gifts and entertainment, and general regulatory enforcement.

As the General Manager for the region, Andrew is responsible for all operations including business development, advisory, client services and due diligence operations.

Owe is a partner of Xait. He has technical background from the print, press and publishing industry. Owe helps companies optimize and revolutionize their reporting and document creation, co-authoring, automation, publishing and information management processes.

Owe is an expert in enterprise content management, information governance, security, business process optimization, innovation, leadership, human resources and risk management.

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