Our world is facing multiple crises these days: fragile democracies and growing authoritarianism, geo-political insecurity, accelerating climate change and rapid loss of biodiversity. At the same time, the pandemic has shown how fragile and unsustainable our global supply chains are when it comes to providing people with the services and goods they need to secure health, nutrition and energy. Especially in poorer countries, large populations are threatened by a massive loss of welfare. Corruption and a lack of integrity can be found at the heart of many of the disruptions and institutional failures to deal with them efficiently. Due to the cross-border implications of unsustainable and unfair supply chains a growing number of countries and the EU have been setting up legal instruments with extraterritorial application that aim at ensuring social and environmental standards along global supply chains. In the light of the complexity of the associated challenges, to be compliant, actors are encouraged by legislators to engage in multi-stakeholder partnerships and collective action.

The event will primarily focus on the actors in the Global South, who are suffering particularly from global developments with rising poverty rates and precarious working conditions, especially for women, and who are supposed to benefit from new German and European regulatory measures for increased sustainability and ethical business practices in supply chains.
The conference will showcase how a partnership-based approach together with the Global South can help meet the requirements of laws and standards on transparency along supply chains, anti-corruption, human rights, and environmental due diligence. Fostering sustainable and practicable solutions together with the suppliers and their stakeholders in the Global South is therefore key. In this sense, the role of the different stakeholders, the challenges they face and the practical solutions they have come up with, within the network of the Alliance for Integrity and beyond, will be shared and discussed.

09:00 - 10:00

10:00 - 10:20

• Dirk Meyer, Director-General, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
• Iris Plöger, Member of Executive Board, Federation of German Industries (BDI)

10:25 - 11:10

• Arezou Farivar, Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice Officer, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• Jorge Bermúdez, Comptroller General, SAI Chile
• Scarlet Wannenwetsch, Collective Action Specialist, Basel Institute on Governance
• Jezabel Pando, Corporate Compliance Manager, Casa Boller
  
• Moderation: Susanne Friedrich, Director, Alliance for Integrity

11:15 – 12:00

• Marcia Muniz, Senior Legal Director LATAM and Canada, Cisco
• Prof. Dr. Bartosz Makowicz, Professor at the Faculty of Law, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
• Anke Struckmeier-Eickenberg, Head of Compliance, Metro AG
  
• Cecilia Müller Torbrand, CEO, Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN)
• Moderation: Dr. Anna-Maija Mertens, Managing Director, Transparency International Germany

12:00 – 13:10

13:10 – 13:30

13:30 – 14:00

14:00 – 15:15

• Torsten Safarik, President, German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control
  Introductory note and Q&A
  
• Dr. Anita Schieffer, Group Compliance Officer and Human Rights Officer, Siemens Energy
• Matei Ene, Head of Global Third-Party Risk Management, Commerzbank
• Philip Bartsch, Deputy Managing Director, AHK Chile
• Moderation: Brook Horowitz, CEO, IBLF Global

15:15 – 15:45

15:45 – 17:30

• Introduction by Scarlet Wannenwetsch, Collective Action Specialist, Basel Institute on Governance

• Humberto Cantú Rivera, Professor at the Law Faculty, Universidad de Monterrey
  
• Silvia Dávalos, Director General Public Policies, Consejo Coordinador Empresarial México
  
• Jana Sievers, Advisor, Helpdesk on Business & Human Rights
• Moderation: Dr. Simon Gaus, Regional Manager, Alliance for Integrity

• Danang Widoyoko, Secretary General, Transparency International Indonesia
• Maria Archimbal, Chief Compliance Officer, YPF
• Moderation: Daniela Santana, Head of Cooperation and International Relations, Supreme Audit Institution Chile

• Stefan Halusa, Director General, Indo-German Chamber of Commerce
  
• Andreas Pyrcek, Partner Global Forensic and Integrity Services, Ernst & Young
• Daniel Hopp, Network Representative Germany/Austria, amfori
• Moderation: Claudia Sanen, Regional Manager, Alliance for Integrity

17:30 – 17:45

• Norbert Kaliwe, Global Compliance Lead Anti Money Laundering, Merck Group, Member of the Alliance for Integrity’s Steering Committee
  
• Susanne Friedrich, Director, Alliance for Integrity

17:45 - 18:45