Speaker Hall of Fame

FCPA & Anti-Corruption
Speaker Hall of Fame

For over three decades, ACI and C5 conferences have featured a distinguished speaker line-up of senior government officials and industry executives worldwide.

Government Faculty Members from Around the Globe Have Included:

  • Steven Peikin
    Then Co-Director of Enforcement — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Stephanie Avakian
    Then Co-Director of Enforcement — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Daniel Kahn
    (Then) Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division — U.S. Department of Justice
  • Brian A. Benczkowski
    (Then) Assistant Attorney General — U.S. Department of Justice
  • Rod Rosenstein
    (Then) Deputy Attorney General — U.S. Department of Justice
  • Sally Q. Yates
    (Then) Deputy Attorney General — U.S. Department of Justice
  • Lisa Osofsky
    Director — Serious Fraud Office (UK)
  • Minister André Luiz de Almeida Mendonça
    (Then) Attorney General of Brazil — Advocacia-Geral da União (Brazil)
  • Minister Wagner de Campos Rosário
    (Then) Minister of Transparency, Supervision and Control — Comptroller General of the Union (Brazil)
  • Jean-François Bohnert
    Chief Public Prosecutor, Head — Parquet National Financier (France)
  • Charles Duchaine
    (Then) Director — French Anti-Corruption Agency (France)
  • José Octavio López Presa
    (Then) National Chairman — Comité de Participación Ciudadana del Sistema Nacional Anticorrupción (Mexico)
  • Dante Preisser Rentería
    (Then) Head of the Anti-Corruption Unit — Secretaría de la Función Pública (Mexico)
  • Alf Johansson
    (Then) Chief Public Prosecutor — Swedish National Anti-Corruption Unit (Sweden)
  • Hedvig Moe
    (Then) Deputy Director — ØKOKRIM (Norway)
  • Kiat Pheng Tan
    Chief Prosecutor, Crime Division — Attorney-General’s Chambers (Singapore)
  • Antonio del Moral
    Judge — Supreme Court (Spain)
  • Ambassador Stefan Estermann
    (Then) Head of the Sectoral Foreign Policies Division and Chairman of the Federal Interdepartmental Working Group Against Corruption — Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (Switzerland)
  • Rhoda Weeks-Brown
    General Counsel — International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • Michel Sapin
    Former Minister of Finance (France)
  • Laura Alonso
    (Then) Secretary for Public Ethics, Transparency and the Fight Against Corruption, Head of Anti-Corruption Office — Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Argentina)
  • Leslie Caldwell
    (Then) Assistant Attorney General — U.S. Department of Justice
  • Pascale Dubois
    (Then) Integrity Vice President — The World Bank
  • Nicola Bonucci
    (Then) Director & Accession Coordinator Directorate for Legal Affairs — Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
  • Kenneth A. Polite, Jr.
    Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division — U.S. Department of Justice
  • Gurbir Grewal
    Director, Division of Enforcement — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Joshua W. DeLay
    Section Chief – Department of Justice Liaison, Financial Crimes Unit — Homeland Security Investigations
  • Patrick Killeen
    Unit Chief, International Corruption Unit — Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Charles Cain
    Chief, FCPA Unit — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Lisa Miller
    Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Fraud and Appellate Sections, Criminal Division — U.S. Department of Justice
  • Glenn Leon
    Chief, Fraud Section — U.S. Department of Justice
  • David Last
    Chief, FCPA Unit — U.S. Department of Justice
  • Andrew Adams
    Director, Task Force KleptoCapture — U.S. Department of Justice
  • Nicole Argentieri
    Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General — Department of Justice, Criminal Division
  • Matthew Axelrod
    Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement — U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Leonardo Cervera-Navas
    Director — EDPS – European Data Protection Supervisor (Belgium)
  • Olivier Micol
    Head of Unit, Data Protection — Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission
  • Elisabeth Jilderyd
    (Then) International Legal Advisor and Coordinator; International and EU Department — The Swedish Data Protection Authority
  • Maria Wilhelm
    Head of the Europe Office — Office of the State Representative for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in the State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany)

Past and Upcoming In-House Executive Faculty Include:

  • Brad Smith
    President — Microsoft Corporation
  • Karen Seymour
    Then Executive Vice President and General Counsel — Goldman Sachs
  • Michael Sumruld
    Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer — Parker Drilling Company
  • Alexandre Gonçalves Silva
    Chairman of the Board — Embraer SA
  • Pedro Parente
    (Then) Global Chief Executive Officer — BRF SA
  • Vladimiro de la Mora
    President and CEO Mexico — GE
  • Dave Yawman
    (Then) Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary — PepsiCo
  • John Harrison
    Global General Counsel — Airbus
  • Rachel Brand
    (Former Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice) Executive Vice President of Global Governance Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary — Walmart
  • John Blood
    General Counsel & Company Secretary — Anheuser-Busch InBev
  • Norman Brothers Jr.
    Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary — UPS
  • Cari Robinson
    (Then) Executive Vice President & General Counsel — Revlon
  • Michael Bailey
    General Counsel, Senior Vice President — Bechtel Group, Inc.
  • Eileen Akerson
    (Then) Executive Vice President & General Counsel — KBR
  • Kimberly Chainey
    (Then) General Counsel — Panasonic Avionics Corporation
  • Cornelis (“Kees”) Van Ophem
    Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel — Fresenius Medical Care
  • William Marsh
    Chief Legal Officer — Baker Hughes
  • Brian M. Martin
    (Then) Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary — Juniper Networks
  • Octavio F. Pastrana
    (Then) Board Member and Chair of Strategy and Investment Committee — Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX)
  • Francisco Petros
    Vice Chairman, Governing Board — BRF S.A.
  • Shmuel Sunray
    (Then) Executive Vice President, General Counsel — Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
  • Carine Smith Ihenacho
    Chief Corporate Governance Officer — Norges Bank Investment Management
  • Francisco Petros
    Board Member and President of Succession and Compensation Committee — Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras
  • André Béla Jánszky
    Board Member, Head of Audit Committee and of Corporate Governance and Personnel Committee — Gol Linhas Aéreas
  • Fernando Ruíz S.
    Member of the Board of Directors and of the Audit and/or Corporate Practice Committees — Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, Fresnillo PLC, Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua, Grupo Financiero Santander, Grupo Palacio de Hierro, Grupo Pochteca, Kimberly Clark de México, Rassini
  • David Levine
    (Then) Chief Legal Officer — Och-Ziff Capital Management
  • Lisa Prager
    General Counsel, Executive Vice-President — Agricultural Bank of China
  • Preston D. Wigner
    Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary — Universal Corporation
  • Beatrice Hamza Bassey
    (Then) Chief Legal Officer (Group General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary) — Atlas Mara Ltd., Member of Audit Committee and Board
  • Bapsy Dastur
    (Then) General Counsel & Legal Officer — Stolt-Nielsen Limited
  • Alex Dimitrief
    (Then) Senior Vice President & General Counsel — General Electric
  • Erik Lagendijk
    (Then) Chief Governance & Compliance Officer — Management Board SBM Offshore NV
  • Suzanne Rich Folsom
    (Then) General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer & Senior Vice President Government Affairs — United States Steel Corporation
  • Tony West
    SVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary — Uber
  • Jennifer Zachary
    Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary — Merck & Co., Inc.
  • Salvador Dahan
    Executive Director, Chief Governance & Compliance Officer — Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras)