Kathleen Roussel

Border Services Agendy, Canada

Chair, OECD Working Group on Bribery; Senior Advisor for Trade Compliance

Description

Ms. Kathleen Roussel is Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, leading the Working Group in its mandate to combat foreign bribery in international business transactions, including through monitoring the implementation and enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the 2021 Anti-Bribery Recommendation, and other related instruments. The Working Group also promotes good practices in anti-bribery government measures and promotes international co-operation to combat foreign bribery. Chair Roussel is the Senior Advisor for Trade Compliance to the President of the Canada Border Services Agency. Until June 2017, she was Director of Public Prosecutions and Deputy Attorney General of Canada, since June 2017. Ms. Roussel also served as a member of the Chandler Sessions on Integrity and Corruption at Oxford University and is Vice-President of the International Association of Prosecutors.