Employees are adopting AI faster than companies can build policies, governance, and training. That gap creates compliance exposure in areas from data privacy to shadow IT to workplace equity.
Tom Fox
Thomas Fox has practiced law for over 40 years. Tom writes the daily award-winning blog, the FCPA Compliance and Ethics blog and founded the Compliance Podcast Network. Tom leads the discussion on AI in compliance through his best-selling book Upping Your Game. He has 38 other books on the use of AI in compliance and business ethics, leadership including the seminal work, The Compliance Handbook, with its 7th edition coming out in 2025. He is the founder of the award-winning Compliance Podcast Network.
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Posted inBest Practices
A friend for the compliance officer: Co-thinking with AI
At their core, compliance officers are problem-solvers. They wrestle with thorny questions every day: How do we implement a global gifts-and-entertainment policy across jurisdictions with vastly different cultural norms? How do we balance business pressures with anti-corruption obligations? How do we address new risks like AI itself?
Posted inEthics & Culture
AI governance, agentic misalignment and the lessons from ‘Star Trek’
Does sci-fi predict the future of compliance or simply provide commentary on the current state of compliance? What is the role of corporate compliance around AI governance?
Posted inData Privacy
Data-driven compliance can create business success
Smart uses of data analytics show companies can not only improve their compliance programs with technology, but actually create bottom-line results for their companies as well.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
The evolution of FCPA enforcement
Compliance Week guest columnist Tom Fox writes about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act’s journey from 2012 through today.
Posted inEthics & Culture
Top Minds in Compliance podcast: Joseph Agins
Joseph Agins, institutional compliance officer at Sam Houston State University, explains how the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal provided a value proposition for enhancements to compliance at higher education institutions.
Posted inEurope
Top Minds in Compliance podcast: Max Roche
Max Roche, compliance manager of direct funding at the World Economic Forum, discusses his role in making sure grant money received by the organization is spent in the way intended.
Posted inSanctions
Top Minds in Compliance podcast: Bob Ward
Bob Ward, director of trade compliance at Wesco International, explains to columnist Tom Fox the benefits of targeted sanctions and how compliance practitioners can properly respond to such.
Posted inEthics & Culture
Top Minds in Compliance podcast: Cécilia Fellouse-Guenkel
Cécilia Fellouse-Guenkel, executive secretary at Le Cercle de la Compliance in Paris, discusses with columnist Tom Fox how compliance is viewed in France and touches on the country’s new anti-corruption law, Sapin II.
Posted inInternal Controls
Top Minds in Compliance podcast: Vanessa Rossi
Vanessa Rossi, senior compliance counsel at Baker Hughes, explains to columnist Tom Fox the benefits of operationalized compliance and how to ensure it is properly in place.
