The COVID-19 pandemic altered in a dramatic way how companies operate their anti-corruption compliance programs, but not necessarily for the worse, according to two experts who shared their experiences at Diligent’s virtual “Modern Governance Summit” on Sept. 14.
“Necessity was the mother of training,” said Drew Northern, director of global anti-corruption at Cook Group, a U.S. privately held medical device manufacturing company. The pandemic required changing everything, from the delivery of training to investigations and audits, he said.
