As part of our occasional series of conversations with compliance executives and others influential in the corporate governance world, we caught up with Lee Augsburger, chief ethics and compliance officer at Prudential Financial to talk about how Prudential structures the ethics and compliance departments. Prudential has a standalone ethics department, with ethics officers embedded in each business unit. Augsburger provides insights on Prudential’s unique ethics and compliance structure and how it works to further the goals of the organization.

First, tell us a little about Prudential, generally.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...