Necessity is the mother of invention, and the latest example is also this year’s Compliance Program of the Year award winner: the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS), which built a full-fledged compliance program from scratch in the middle of a war.

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...