After a successful career as a prosecutor and as corporate counsel, Hui Chen made headlines in 2015 when she joined the Department of Justice’s Fraud Division as its first-ever compliance consultant, a role meant to help the Justice Department and corporate compliance departments better understand each other so the latter could more easily abide by the demands of the former. Specifically, she helped prosecutors develop appropriate benchmarks for evaluating corporate compliance and remediation measures, and communicating those benchmarks with stakeholders … namely, companies under the Department’s jurisdiction. Companies appreciated Chen’s work as well, because the guidance she helped to develop gave them a better idea of what to expect as they tried to secure prosecution agreements and abide by monitoring and other conditions.
Chen made headlines once again in 2017 when she resigned from her position at the Justice Department as her contracted time there was starting to draw to a close. Though she could have stayed longer, she chose to leave amid the tumult of the early Trump administration, with news of various investigations and ethical conflicts. She has since established herself as a thought leader specializing in organizational ethical transformations. She is also a frequent speaker at industry events, and a prolific writer.
