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Vera Cherepanova

Vera Cherepanova

Executive Director

Boards of the Future

Vera is an award-winning ethics and compliance expert who writes and speaks about business ethics, workplace culture, behavioral compliance, risk, and governance. She is the Executive Director of Boards of the Future, a non-profit that works with corporate boards globally and advocates for more people with ethics and compliance backgrounds on boards. Vera is the author of Corporate Compliance Program, the first-ever book on compliance in the Russian language, and a co-author of The Transnationalization of Anti-Corruption Law, as well as hundreds of articles on all aspects of ethics, compliance, and governance. Her insights have been featured in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Law360, Compliance Week, and Chartered Management Institute publications. Vera serves as an ethics advisor for market-leading corporations and international not-for-profits. 

For more information, visit www.veracherepanova.com

Articles by the author

  • 9 Jun 2022 Vera Cherepanova

    Environmental, Social & Governance Disclosure Adoption – What Can We Learn From the EU?

    Each year, NAVEX publishes the Top 10 Trends in Risk and Compliance. This publication features trends and predictions for the year to come and features contributions from experts in the industry. In this excerpt, Karen Alonardo and Vera Cherepanova discuss what the European Union is doing for ESG disclosure adoption and what the rest of the world can learn.

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  • 7 Apr 2021 Vera Cherepanova

    EU Conflict Minerals Regulation: What You Need to Know

    The EU has introduced new legislation to ensure that importers of certain materials originating from conflict-affected and high-risk areas source them responsibly by laying down supply chain due diligence obligations.

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  • 13 Oct 2020 Vera Cherepanova

    Supply Chains Under Scrutiny: Targeting Human Rights and Forced Labor Risks

    This summer, one of the UK’s biggest online brands found its supply chain at the center of a high-profile modern slavery investigation. This and COVID-19 have companies taking a fresh look at their supply chains for compliance with human rights standards and other related risks.

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