Speakers

• Brian Rabbitt Acting Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice, Criminal Division
  

  Brian Rabbitt

  Acting Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice, Criminal Division

  Brian Rabbitt is the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. In that role, Brian supervises more than 600 prosecutors who investigate and prosecute crimes involving securities fraud, money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act violations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, health care fraud, public corruption, cybercrime, intellectual property theft, organized and transnational crime, gang violence, child exploitation, international narcotics trafficking, human rights violations, and other crimes.

  Brian joined the Criminal Division in 2020 after serving as Chief of Staff and Senior Counselor to Attorney General William P. Barr. Before the Department of Justice, Brian served as Senior Policy Advisor to Chairman Jay Clayton at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. From 2017 to 2018, he was Senior Counsel to the SEC’s Co-Directors of Enforcement. Prior to the SEC, Brian served as Associate Counsel and Special Assistant to the President in the Office of the White House Counsel. Before entering public service, Brian was a litigator at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C., where his practice focused on government investigations, white collar defense, regulatory enforcement matters, false claims act defense, and complex civil litigation.

  Brian graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University and received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Articles Editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law and a member of the William Minor Lile Moot Court Board. After law school, Brian served as a law clerk to Judge Henry E. Hudson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and Judge Thomas M. Hardiman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

• Charles (Chuck) Duross Partner, Morrison Foerster
  

  Charles (Chuck) Duross

  Partner, Morrison Foerster

  Dubbed “Mr. FCPA” by the Washington Post, Duross was a principal author for the First Edition of the DoJ FCPA Resource Guide. As a veteran trial attorney, Chuck has a proven track record in the courtroom in high-profile, high-stakes trials. Chuck is routinely recognized in various rankings and publications, including Chambers Global, Chambers USA, and Ethisphere, as a leading attorney in white-collar criminal defense, with a particular specialty in FCPA and foreign corruption cases.
  Duross now serves as Partner for Morrison Foerster and global co-chair of the firm’s Investigations + White Collar Defense Practice Group and is a co-leader of the FCPA and Global Anti-Corruption practice.

• David Ogden Former Deputy Attorney General. US Department of Justice
  

  David Ogden

  Former Deputy Attorney General. US Department of Justice

  A nationally recognized litigator and counselor with more than thirty years’ experience, David Ogden focuses his practice on complex disputes with serious financial implications. He served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2010 and as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, from 1999 to 2001. Mr. Ogden is chair of the firm’s Government and Regulatory Litigation Group.

• Patricia J. Harned Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer | Ethics & Compliance Initiative
  

  Patricia J. Harned Ph.D.

  Chief Executive Officer | Ethics & Compliance Initiative

  Patricia Harned is chief executive officer of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI). Established in 1922, ECI is a nonprofit with a mission to empower organizations to operate with integrity.

  For nearly two decades as CEO, Dr. Harned has overseen all of ECI’s strategy and operations. In that time ECI has become the leading provider of independent research about workplace integrity, the drivers of organizational culture, and effective compliance programs. Dr. Harned is a recognized expert on culture change, ethical leadership, and workplace reporting/retaliation. She leads ECI’s advisory service practice. Clients have included 200+ prominent organizations, often working to regain stakeholder trust following significant matters of misconduct. Dr. Harned has participated as a member of several independent monitoring teams, imposed by federal enforcement agencies as a part of corporate settlement agreements.

  Dr. Harned also directs outreach efforts to policymakers and federal enforcement agencies in Washington, DC. She has provided ethics & compliance briefings to officials in the US Department of Justice, testified before Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and she has personally briefed U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, the OSHA Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee, and the Federal Bar Council on strategies to increase effective reporting of suspected misconduct. Dr. Harned also regularly provides training to corporate boards of directors on topics related to governance, and she is chairing a Blue-Ribbon Commission to define effective corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs.

  Dr. Harned is a multi-year honoree as one of Ethisphere Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics. She is also a multi-year honoree as a Top Thought Leader in Trust; a recognition offered by Trust Across America. She was a member of the PCAOB Standing Advisory Group, and she currently serves on the board of the U.S. Center for SafeSport as well as the International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors (IAICM).

  Dr. Harned holds a bachelor of science degree from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, a masters of education degree from Indiana University, and a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh.