Knowledge Partner Session 08: Integrity as Strategy: How the Private Sector Can Lead the Future of Anti-Corruption
Mar 25, 2026 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Auditorium
Description
Organised by Alliance for Integrity, UN Global Compact France and UN Global Compact Germany
Integrity is increasingly shaping how companies manage risk, operate across borders, and access markets. As regulatory frameworks evolve - including the forthcoming EU Anti-Corruption Directive, with its strengthened and more harmonised approach to offences, sanctions and enforcement - companies face growing expectations to address corruption risks not only within their own operations, but also across their supply chains.
This session will examine how integrity is moving beyond a narrow compliance function to become a strategic asset for companies operating in a fragmented regulatory and geopolitical environment. Drawing on the outcomes of the Franco-German Working Group on Business Integrity, the discussion will highlight practical tools, shared challenges and emerging priorities for operationalising integrity across value chains.
Two panels will bring together representatives from the private sector, public authorities and civil society to explore how cross-border dialogue and collective action support companies in strengthening licence to operate and embedding integrity into long-term business strategy.
SPEAKERS:
- Anna-Maija Mertens, Member of the Management Board, DICO
- Mathieu Kahn, Deputy Director of Economic Actors, Agence française anticorruption (AFA)
- Natacha Lesellier, President, Cercle de la Compliance
Iohann Le Frapper, Group Chief Ethics Officer, SNCF
- Laurence Fabre, Head of Private Sector Programme, Transparency International France
- Carolina Echevarria, Head, Alliance for Integrity
- Ncomile Ndlovu, UN Global Compact Network France
- Nils Pedersen, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Network France
- Marcel Engel, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Network Germany
- Viktoria von Knobloch, Senior Policy Advisor, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany
This session is led by partner organisations and may not reflect the views of the OECD.
