SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Prof. Dr. Bartosz Makowicz
Speaker
Bartosz Makowicz (born 1981) is a university professor at the Faculty of Law of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). He is the initiator and director of the Viadrina Compliance Center, the first intra- and interdisciplinary academic research facility on governance, risk and compliance. Bartosz is also a member of various scientific advisory boards and expert advisory boards of compliance associations, such as the German Institute for Compliance. He is the author of many specialist publications in national and international specialist journals. He is also the author of handbooks and monographs on compliance topics. In total, Makowicz has published over 100 titles on the interdisciplinary research field of governance, risk and compliance. As a compliance expert, he has given over 100 presentations at national and international conferences and specialist congresses and is used worldwide as a professional compliance trainer. Among other things, he headed the German delegation for the development of the ISO 19600 Compliance Management Systems and ISO 37001 Anti-Bribery Management Systems standards at a global level and chaired the national mirror committee “Governance and Compliance Management” at DIN e.V.. In these functions, he will in future supervise the newly established TC 309 for the development of a global ISO standard for governance and whistleblowing. Among other things, he advises national and foreign governments on compliance issues. He is also an academic advisor at the Compliance Academy, the Münster-based company specializing in compliance training. He speaks fluent German, English, Polish and good French.
Prof. Dr. Lena Rudkowski
Speaker
Prof. Dr. Lena Rudkowski has held the Chair of Civil Law and Labour Law at the Faculty of Law at Justus Liebig University Giessen since 2018. She previously held a junior professorship for civil law, employment and insurance law at the Free University of Berlin after studying law and completing her doctorate in Berlin and legal clerkship in Berlin and London. There she also habilitated on a financial supervisory law topic. Her research focuses on labor and insurance law, in particular on questions of labor and regulatory compliance, including data protection. She is a member of the wiss. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of the journal comply and the author of numerous works on the subject of compliance.
Prof. Dr. Stephan Grüninger
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Stephan Grüninger is Scientific Director of the Konstanz Institute for Corporate Governance (KICG) and holds the W3 professorship for General Business Administration with a focus on Managerial Economics at the HTWG Konstanz University of Applied Sciences. He is Chairman of the Board of the German Network for Business Ethics (DNWE), Scientific Director of the Center for Business Ethics gGmbH (ZfW) and heads the Forum Compliance & Integrity (FCI) and the Forum Compliance Mittelstand (FCM).
He completed his doctorate in 2001 at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg on the subject of “Trust Management – Cooperation, Morality and Governance”. From 2002 to 2009, he worked in management consulting and auditing, in particular in the areas of Integrity & Compliance Management and Fraud Investigation, most recently as a partner at Ernst & Young AG.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Linsen
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Linsen is Professor of Applied Computer Science at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. He received his academic education at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), where he completed his diploma in 1997 and his dissertation in 2001. After 3 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis, U.S.A., he accepted a junior professorship at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald in 2004 and an associate professorship at Jacobs University, Bremen, in 2006. He was appointed Full Professor in 2012 before accepting a W3 professorship in Münster in 2017. His research focuses on interactive visual data analysis.
Prof. Dr. Markus Pohlmann
Prof. Dr. Markus Pohlmann is Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology at Heidelberg University. His areas of specialization include organizational and management sociology, economic sociology and research into organizational crime in international comparison. His work deals with the social significance of economic elites and with generational change and the associated change in values in top management. His current research interests include interdisciplinary corruption research, organization and management and evidence-based organizational compliance.
Prof. Dr. Bernd Marcus
Bernd Marcus has held the chair of “ABWL: Organizational and Personnel Psychology” at the Institute of Business Administration at the University of Rostock since 2016. He previously held professorships at the Psychological Institutes of the FernUniversität Hagen and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. His research focuses on the explanation of deviant (counterproductive) behaviour of employees in companies from a psychological perspective, which is understood as damage to the organization itself and its members rather than activities directed against society. The prediction of such behavioral tendencies in personnel selection by means of special personality tests (so-called integrity tests) is also a focus of his work. His research in these (and other) fields has been published in numerous journals, books and tests.
Prof. Dr. Michael Nietsch
Prof. Dr. Michael Nietsch holds the Chair of Civil Law, Corporate Law and Capital Markets Law at EBS Law School in Wiesbaden. He is also Director of the Center for Corporate Compliance at the faculty there. His research focuses on the organizational laws of corporations, in particular listed stock corporations. He pays particular attention to issues of corporate integrity and value-based corporate governance. Corporate social responsibility and sustainability law, which is increasingly being defined as such, are taken into account in this context. Here, for example, mutual and international influences of sustainability governance are examined.
Prof. Nietsch also works extensively in the field of banking and financial regulation. His main areas of interest are the prevention of market abuse, in particular insider trading and market manipulation. Further attention is paid to issues of sustainable finance.
Prof. Michael Nietsch is a member of numerous German and international associations of lawyers and legal scholars and a regular commentator.
Prof. Dr. Carmen Tanner
Prof. Dr. Carmen Tanner has held the Chair of Business Psychology and Leadership Ethics at Zeppelin University since 2015 and is Vice Director of the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin (LEIZ). She has also been Professor of Business Psychology and Behavioral Ethics at the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich since 2016 and Director of the Center for Responsibility in Finance there since 2011. From 2004-2010, she held a professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF professorship) at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Zurich. She habilitated in 2006. Prior to this, she researched and taught at various other universities (Bern, Fribourg, Northwestern University (USA), Max Planck Institute Jena). Her areas of specialization are: Behavioral Ethics (how do unethical and illegal business practices occur?), role of corporate culture and personal integrity, leadership, ethical implications of digitalization. Another topic is the development of video games to promote personal integrity in education and training. She is involved in several interdisciplinary research projects in these areas and publishes in international scientific journals. She also works as a reviewer, expert and consultant for compliance and integrity issues in Germany and abroad. She has also been a member of the Digital Society Initiative at the University of Zurich since 2017.
Prof. Dr. Sonja Wüstemann
Sonja Wüstemann holds the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Accounting and Controlling at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). She is a member of the Viadrina Compliance Center and the advisory board of comply. Ms. Wüstemann also heads the RIPSA research initiative on public accounting.
Publications of the Scientific Advisory Board
February 2022: Trust through integrity (Prof. Dr. Stephan Grüninger / Katharina Kneisel)
April 2022: Domestic corruption and external security (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Kubiciel)
June 2022: Data analysis methods for compliance (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Linsen / Alexander Geschonneck)
September 2022: Ethical Leaders (Prof. Dr. Carmen Tanner / Georg Gößwein, LL.M. / Zoltan Waag)
January 2024: Doing the “right thing” – with the help of simple but smart questions.
May 2024: Reducing deviant employee behavior through personnel selection (Prof. Dr. Bernd Marcus)
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