TI-B Corporate Package
Transparency International is currently developing a service package that offers guidance to Belgian based companies with respect to corruption matters: TI-B Corporate Package.
The Package assembles the expertise of many years of research, monitoring, discussion and advisory in dozens of countries, with individual companies, directors and managers and with leading organisations such as OECD, United Nations, World Bank, European Investment Bank and International Chamber of Commerce.
The TI-B Corporate Package offers directors and managers of Belgian based companies:
- TI tools, such as guidance papers, self-assessment checklists and monitoring guideline
- On-line access to TI documentation regarding corruption in the business environment
- Access to local TI experts in countries that are part of the TI international network
- TI-B training modules on corruption in business, in Belgium and abroad:
The TI-B Corporate Package has been launched on 19 November 2010. Please find hereunder the first 6 TI-B training modules. In principle they will be presented in English, while discussion and questions can be in French or English.
Workshop I
Brussels, 19 November 2010, 8.30 am - 1.30 pm
Business abroad: How to manage corruption risks? (I)
Speakers
Pascale Hélène Dubois - World Bank, Sanctions Evaluation and Suspension Officer
Foreign corruption: consequences for Belgian companies
Presentation and CV
Evert-Jan Lammers - Managing Director of the Institute for Financial Investigations, Executive professor at the Antwerp Management School
Foreign corruption: concrete Belgian cases
Presentation and CV
Djordjija Petkoski - Professor at the Wharton School, Head of ‘Business, Competitiveness and Development’ team at the World Bank Institute
Social costs of corruption and collective action. An agenda for action
Presentation and CV
Jean Spreutels - Judge at the Constitutional Court, professor at ULB, former Chair of the Belgian Financial Intelligence Unit (CTIF)
How preventive anti-money laundering measures contribute to fighting corruption
Text and CV
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Workshop II
Brussels, 21 January 2011, 9.00 am – 2.00 pm
Business abroad: How to manage corruption risks? (II)
Speakers
Rudy Hoskens - Partner Forensic Services PricewaterhouseCoopers
Bribery & Corruption: A preview of things to come?
Presentation and CV
Kirtikumar Mehta - Former Cartels Director in Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission, Ph.D. London School of Economics
Competition Law, white collar crime and corruption
Presentation and CV
Frederik Verhasselt - Corporate Security Officer of Umicore
To fight corruption abroad: towards supply chain transparency
Presentation and CV
François Vincke - Lawyer in private practice, Chair of the Anti-corruption Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce, former Lay Judge in the Commercial Court of Brussels
Penal risks in the field of corruption in Belgium
Presentation and CV
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Conference I
Brussels, 3 March 2011, 2.00 pm – 6.30 pm
Arenberg Room, Egmont Palace
The new UK Bribery act: consequences for companies in Belgium
Speakers
Richard Alderman - Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) of the United Kingdom
The new UK Bribery Act: consequences for companies in Belgium
Speech and CV
Robert Barrington - Director of External Affairs at Transparency International United Kingdom
To have adequate procedures in place: what does it mean?
Presentation and CV
Roger Best - Partner at Clifford Chance's Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in London, head of the Regulatory, Fraud and Investigations group
Why foreign companies need to prepare for the UK Bribery Act
Presentation and CV
Johan Denolf - Director of the department Economic and Financial Criminality (DJF) of the Belgian Federal Police
Experiences about corruption
Presentation and CV
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Workshop III
Brussels, 5 April 2011, 2.00 pm – 6.00 pm
The Siemens case: lessons and best practices
Speakers
Frank Hallez - Regional Compliance Officer Siemens Belgium and Luxemburg
Compliance at Siemens: first hand insights on how we build up our compliance culture
Presentation and CV
David Venter - Professor of Management Practice at Vlerick Management School
Corruption, a very real scourge. An inevitability of doing business in developing worlds, or an ethical leadership challenge?
Speech and CV
Laurent Vrijdaghs - Administrator General of the Belgian Regie des Bâtiments / Regie der Gebouwen
Belgian Buildings Agency: Ethics and Integrity
Presentation and CV
Arie Westerlaken - Senior Vice-President and former Chief Legal Officer of Philips
Corruption, a corporate view
Presentation and CV
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Conference II
Brussels, 24 May 2011, 8 pm
Arenberg Room, Egmont Palace
How to fight white collar corruption?
Speakers and panel
Eva Joly - As a former French magistrate, she investigated political and financial issues as the Elf case. Eva Joly was elected MEP in 2009a, and is candidate for the upcoming French presidential elections.
Michel Claise - Investigating Judge within the Court of First Instance of Brussels
Jean-Claude Delepière - Director of the Belgian Intelligence Processing Unit (CTIF-CFI)
Johan Denolf - Director of the department Economic and Financial Crime Division (DJF) of the Belgian Federal Police
Robert Wtterwulghe - Professor UCL and Lawyer
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Workshop V
Brussel, 12 september 2011, 14u-18
Corruptie. Geen enkel bedrijf is veilig. Wat kunnen we doen?
Sprekers
Michel De Samblanx- Professor aan de Universiteit Antwerpen en Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur, voorzitter van het Auditcomité van de Federale Overheid
Ethiek in middelgrote, kleine en familiale ondernemingen
Chantal Hébette - Voorzitter Transparency International Belgium, voormalig directeur bij de Europese Commissie, voormalig inspecteur van Fnanciën
Het voorkomen van corruptie. Principes en praktische instrumenten
Antoon Schockaert - Bedrijfsjurist en juridisch en ICT-adviseur bij Unizo
Corruptierisico en preventie in de KMO's
François Vincke - Advocaat, vicevoorzitter van de Commissie Sociale Aansprakelijkheid en Anti-corruptie van de Internationale Kamer van Koophandel
Aansprakelijkheid van personen en vennootschappen. Een realistische aanpak voor KMO's
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Conference III
Brussels, 7 October 2011, 8 pm
Arenberg Room, Egmont Palace
Do's en don'ts when doing business in Russia
Speakers and panel
Elena Panfilova - Director of Transparency International Russia
Anja Siebel - Legal counsel T.D. Williamson, based in Moscou
Frans Thierens - Head of Ethics & Fraud Unit at the KBC Group
Nabil JiJakli - Secretary General of the Belgian Export Credit Agency (ONDD)
Jacques van Rijckevorsel - President of the Belgian - Luxemburg CHamber of Commerce for Russia and Belarus
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