Donna Boehme
Principal
Compliance Strategists, LLC

Donna C. Boehme is an internationally recognized authority in the field of organizational compliance and ethics with 20+ years experience designing and managing compliance and ethics solutions. As Principal of Compliance Strategists LLC, and Special Advisor to Compliance Systems Legal Group, Donna has advised a wide spectrum of private, public, governmental, academic and non-profit entities located in the US, Europe, Canada, Asia and worldwide. She serves on the respective boards of the RAND Center of Corporate Ethics and Governance, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, the Rutgers Center for Government Compliance & Ethics, and the South Texas College of Law - Corporate Compliance Center. She is currently Program Director (and past charter member) - Conference Board Council on Corporate Compliance and Ethics. Donna is Emeritus Member and past Board member of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association and past Board member of the Association of Corporate Counsel – Europe. She was a charter member of the Corporate Executive Board's Compliance and Ethics Leadership Council and is a past Fellows member of the Ethics Resource Center. Her extensive on-the-ground experience includes serving as the first global compliance and ethics officer for two leading multinationals. At BOC Group (now a part of Linde), Donna established the company's global compliance and ethics function and developed its worldwide code and program "Living Our Values." In 2003 she served as the first group compliance and ethics officer for BP plc, establishing the company's global compliance and ethics function, infrastructure and program, including a dedicated central team and groundbreaking network of 135 senior–level business ethics leaders worldwide. Many elements of the programs developed by Donna are regarded as best practice in the field and have been adopted in various forms by leading companies.

Donna is a contributing editor of Ethikos, a leading business ethics publication, and has been published and quoted widely on compliance and ethics issues including in The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, the Economist, Washington Times, Financial Times, New York Law Journal, Reuters and Compliance Week. She is the publisher of CS Newsflash, a weekly commentary on compliance and ethics developments around the world. A frequent speaker to industry and professional groups, she has spoken at the House of Lords on the design and implementation of global compliance programs. Donna is a featured expert in the PBS documentary, "In Search of the Good Corporate Citizen."

Earlier in her career, Donna was in private corporate practice at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in NYC. She holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York bar. She operates her global consultancy from her New York-area based location. www.compliancestrategists.com