S4E8 | Around the World: Nokia’s Darja Galante on Promoting E&C Across the Globe

Darja Galante of Nokia speaks with LRN’s Ben DiPietro about how regional differences impact the way ethics and compliance programs can operate effectively; how COVID-19 has changed the nature of investigations; and why diversity, equity, and inclusion are vital to a company’s success.

 

“It was possible to at least partially replace this face-to-face atmosphere with this video connection, but it’s way more challenging to not being able to read the facial expressions, the mimics, and the rest of the non-verbal communication that is usually very helpful during our interviews.”

- Darja Galante

 

Darja Galante is Nokia’s senior business integrity manager and regional investigations lead in its Munich office. Previously, she led a global ethics and compliance function for a major NASDAQ-listed medical device company based in the Asia-Pacific region, and where she had a strong focus on third-party risk management, data privacy, and localization of global processes.

 

Galante’s experience includes providing anti-corruption compliance counseling and program management; local content counselling; developing and delivering compliance training to employees and third-party partners; conducting intermediary and transactional due diligence; conducting complex risk assessments; and overseeing corporate investigations.

 

She has a degree in business administration and management, a certificate in corporate law, and can speak seven languages.

 

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

 

[1:36] What sparked Galante’s interest in ethics and compliance and how has her career path led to her current role at Nokia?

 

[4:09] How has the experience of working all over the world shaped the way that Galante views ethics and compliance?

 

[6:56] What is the role of a business integrity manager and how has Covid changed that part of Galante’s job?

 

[8:26] Are there advantages to doing investigations that don’t involve sitting in front of someone?

 

[9:34] Is there an uptick of reporting in the pandemic? Why or why not?

 

[11:03] How are Nokia’s diversity and inclusion programs involving?

 

[13:39] What measurements help determine the effectiveness of diversity and inclusion programs?

 

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