Past ECS Events 2020 – Working Groups

WG Investigations Events

  • 08 October 2020 – Webinar: AML Investigations in 2020 – Interactions between Financial Intermediaries and the Swiss Money Laundering Reporting Office.

Speakers: Dr. Doris Hutzler, Partner at LCR Services AG, and Daniel Thelesklaf, AML/CFT/Anti-Corruption Expert and former Head of the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS)

  • 15 September 2020 – Sexual Harassment Investigations – Best Practice Meeting  / Webinar.

The speaker was Lic. Iur. Monika Hirzel-Karolak, manager and owner of BeTrieb – Konfliktberatung für Unternehmen und Institutionen – Mobbing und sexuelle Belästigung, Zurich and the Panel Discussion was led by Monika Hirzel-Karolak, Florian Bigler (Employee Relations EMEA, Google) and Ursula Gut-Sulzer (Mediator and External person of trust, Gut-zusammenleben GmbH, Winterthur).


WG Leadership, Communications and Talent Management Events

  • 04 September 2020 – 5th ECS End of the Summer Roundtable and Networking Drinks. The topic of discussion was,“Workplace Stress and the Compliance Officer”
  • 15 May 2020 – “Compliance and the Corona Virus”

WG Whistleblowing Events

  • 27 October 2020 – Webinar: National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines: Contact point for Responsible Business Conduct. The speaker was Alex Kunze, National Contact Point NCP (OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises – State Secretariat for Economic Affairs)

WG Life Sciences Events

  • 17 September 2020 – Working with a Monitor a – case study from the Medtech industry.

Speakers: Babila Gipponi, Head of Compliance Europe, Getinge (Medtech company) and Kaisa Karvonen, Head of Forensic Risk Alliance, Switzerland

  • 14 September 2020 – From FMCG to Life-Science – E&C challenge, contribution, and learnings

Speaker: Charles Pare, Head Compliance EU West

  • 19 August 2020 –  Third Party Compliance Monitoring and Auditing.

Speakers: Rayna Wong, former Director OUS Compliance Monitoring, Amgen and Marie Vlasek, Compliance Officer, International Partner Markets, Biogen International GmbH

  • 12 June 2020 –  Social Credit System in China – a different perspective on third party management

Speaker: Ralf Rehfuss, Consultant Internal Audit & IKS

  • 05 June 2020 – Ordinance on Integrity and Transparency in the field of medicinal products. What pitfalls or challenges did we encounter when implementing the new legislation?

Speaker: Alex Fuchs, Senior Manager, Standards & Governance, Biogen

  • 05 May 2020 – Third Party Management by a presenter from Deloitte

These are the upcoming dates for our Annual General Meetings:

Thursday, 19 March 2026
Thursday, 18 March 2027

If you are an ECS member, you are cordially invited to our Annual General Meetings! Each AGM is followed by discussion on current compliance topics and an networking Apèro.

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