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Sandra Bograd

Lecturer; Founder and Managing Director, The Sandra Bograd Group

Sandra Bograd is the founder and managing director of a consultancy that provides advice to corporate, governmental, NGO and multilateral institutions in the design, activation, and management of ESG programs. The Sandra Bograd Group offers innovative bespoke solutions in the development of programs to affirmatively mitigate the risk of corruptive behaviors for global organizations. This includes the design and communication of internal ethics, compliance, governance, and behavioral risk management programs in over 20 countries for Boards, C-Suite executive teams, management, operating and supply chain employees.

Sandra is a globally focused legal and compliance executive with an established track record of strong leadership in the areas of compliance, operational/legal risk management and effective ethical culture program construction. She has been recognized by her peers as a subject matter expert in corporate ethics and compliance programming, financial crime, anti-money laundering as well as global anti-corruption regimes in the insurance and banking sectors with a demonstrated expertise in the issues now confronting global operations across industry sectors.

Previously, Sandra was the SVP and Global Chief Compliance Officer with New York Life International Insurance Company; Associate General Counsel and Corporate Legal Lead for Financial Crimes, Anti-Corruption, Anti-Bribery, Economic Sanctions, Political Law and Conflicts of Interest at Bank of America, Inc. She has also held the roles of VP of Ethics and Business Practices with Freddie Mac and Senior Knowledge Lead and Bespoke Advisory Senior, European operations with LRN. Sandra began her in-house career as lead financial crimes, fraud investigations and governmental affairs counsel for the American International Group, Inc. and prior to that was both a government prosecutor and law firm litigation partner. She was designated as a Certified Criminal Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court and as one of Avenue Magazines Top 50 Women In-House Attorneys.

Sandra is a graduate Rutgers University and the Vermont Law School. 

 

Current Courses

  • Course: Global Legal and Regulatory Ecosystems