Avoiding Death by Governance: Taking the Governance, Risk and Compliance Frameworks to the next level

May 2015

Abstract

Contemporary governance, risk and compliance (GRC) principles advocate the shift from a silo approach to managing governance, risk and compliance to better rationalize the direct relationship between a particular risk, the adequacy of controls to protect against that risk, and the level of compliance to those controls. The premise being that by engineering a closer relationship between governance, risk and compliance, the effectiveness of those management functions will increase at both a divisional and group level.

Author

John Cowell

General Counsel & Company Secretary, Healthdirect Australia, Australia

John Cowell is General Counsel and is responsible for the legal, governance and compliance functions of Healthdirect Australia Ltd., a company owned by the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments. In the emerging field of medtech and e-health law, John negotiates funding agreements with Australian jurisdictions to procure and contract complex, multi transactional outsourced arrangements that span the globe. With over 20 years PQE, John has extensive experience in corporate and commercial advisory having held legal and governance roles with multinational corporations in Bangladesh, China, India, Singapore, South Korea and the UAE. In his spare time, John serves as Deputy Chair for Child Abuse Prevention Services Inc. and has volunteered for the Red Cross soup kitchens since 2012.

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