World-Check’s fourth annual Compliance Leadership Forum, has once again brought together the world’s leading professionals to identify common compliance concerns and emerging challenges. The attendees came from as far a field as Australia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Jordan, Dubai, Canada, Portugal, Belgium, France, Spain, United States, Austria, Holland, Singapore, Lebanon, The Channel Islands, Scotland and the United Kingdom.

Some 45 attendees enjoyed the round-table event at the stately Brocket Hall located in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. The highly respected guest speakers, who each delivered thought-provoking speeches from their diverse backgrounds, added further dimension to the event. The speakers included 

Rear Admiral Chris Parry, Director General - Development, Concepts and Doctrine at  Ministry of Defence at Shrivenham; Tim Phillips, Business journalist and broadcaster; Ms Elaine Dezenski, Managing Director, Global Security Initiative, Interpol; Sr. Hernán Peñafiel Chief Attorney in the anti-drug trafficking division, Chilean State Defence Council and Ridzwan Aminuddin, Manager of Country-Check, a new risk analysis tool engineered by World-Check.

Rear Admiral Chris Parry CBE MA FCMI

After reading Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford, Chris Parry joined the Royal Navy as a Seaman Officer and subsequently sub-specialised in aviation, operating from carriers and surface combatants.  He was mentioned in despatches during the Falklands war and received the 1983 Prince Philip Helicopter Rescue Award from the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (for rescuing 16 SAS soldiers from a glacier in South Georgia).

After appointments in Defence Policy at the Ministry of Defence and in command of the air defence destroyer HMS GLOUCESTER, he commanded the Maritime Warfare Centre from 1996 to 1998 and was responsible for the teaching and evolution of Joint and maritime doctrine, tactical development and operational analysis.  After the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, he returned to sea in January 2000 in command of HMS FEARLESS and as Flag Captain to the Amphibious Task Group.  From April 2001, as a Commodore and as Director Operational Capability in the Ministry of Defence, he was directly responsible to Ministers and the Chiefs of Staff for the provision of independent assessments of strategic risk, operational capability and lessons from operations.  In September 2003, he took command of the UK’s Amphibious Task Group and NATO’s UK/Netherlands Amphibious Task Group.  On promotion to Flag rank in January 2005, he formed the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre and spent 3 years as its Director General.  Here, he supervised a major revision of UK Joint thinking, together with the associated concepts and doctrine, and the widely acclaimed DCDC Strategic Trends programme.  He was also closely involved with establishing linkages between Governments and across Whitehall to deal with terrorism, insurgency, organised crime and illicit activity.

He is currently gainfully and fully employed as a consultant, writer, broadcaster and lecturer, specialising in strategic developments, future forecasting and geopolitical change.  He has published, broadcasted and lectured on historic, Security and Defence themes for over 20 years and has been at the heart of every Defence Review since 1989.  Apart from his family, his interests include medieval and military history, hill-walking and sport; he represented both the University of Oxford and the Royal Navy at Rugby Union and is currently President of a Rugby League Club.  A Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute and the Chartered Management Institute, he is also a member of the Institute of Directors and the Oxford Research Group. 

FORUM PRESENTATION:
Terrorism: " Long Term Security Threats”


Tim Phillips

Tim Phillips has been a freelance journalist since 1990, writing about business, technology, social change and innovation. He has written for the Wall Street Journal Europe, The International Herald Tribune, The Times and Sunday Times, The Observer, The Independent and The Daily Express among others. For two years he was a technology and internet columnist for the Guardian. The business magazines he has written regularly for include Director, Management Today, Business 2.0 and Red Herring. He is a regular guest on BBC television and radio and Sky News, a regular conference speaker and occasional business consultant.

Among other books Tim is also the author of Scoring Points: How Tesco is Winning Customer Loyalty (2004); Knockoff: the Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods (2006) and Not One of Us: the Trial the Changed Policing in Britain for Ever (2007). Not One of Us is currently being optioned for film, and was Radio 4 Book of the Week.

Tim is married with one pet turtle, lives in London. He is currently working on an anthology of business failure.

FORUM PRESENTATION:
“The Global Counterfeiting Industry”

Ms. Elaine K. Dezenski

In June 2008 Elaine Dezenski was appointed as the Managing Director of INTERPOL’s Global Security Initiative for the 21st Century.  The Global Security Initiative focuses on four strategic cornerstones that are vital to INTERPOL’s contribution to the global security and stability agenda—state of the art training and capacity building, combating terrorism and transnational threats, developing a center of competence in analytics and cyber crime, and deploying innovative tools for securing global trade networks. Through these core initiatives, Ms. Dezenski is also responsible for developing innovative partnerships among law enforcement, governments, and the private sector.  

Prior to joining INTERPOL, Ms. Dezenski was the Senior Vice President for Global Government affairs at Cross Match Technologies, a leader in the development of biometric technology applications for border security, law enforcement, transportation, voter registration, and related areas.
Prior to joining Cross Match, Ms. Dezenski served as an acting assistant secretary and deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where she advised the Secretary and other DHS leadership on international security issues, transportation security, immigration policy, and supply chain security.

Before joining DHS, Ms. Dezenski was a special assistant at the US Department of Transportation. During that time, she also served as a Brookings Institution LegisFellow in 2000-2001, working under the Hon. Sherwood Boehlert, a Member of the Untied State Congress.  She began her career with the Transportation Division of Siemens Corporation.

Ms. Dezenski holds a masters degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a Bachelors degree in International Relations from Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. 

She also serves as the President of the Women’s Transportation Seminar, a nonprofit international organization with over 4500 members dedicated to advancing women in transportation.

FORUM PRESENTATION:
“Global Security Initiative for the 21st Century”


Sr Hernán Peñafiel

Born the 12 of June of 1960, in Santiago of Chile, the older of four brothers. Being my father a bank employee, our family had to live in many cities, so different to each other as those from the desert north of the country until the forest south.

It implied to have to attend seven different schools before returning to Santiago in 1978 to begin university studies of laws, in the most important university of the country, University of Chile, finishing them in 1982, with Highest Distinction.

My professional life continued fundamentally tie for a long time to the banking area, until 1995, when I won a public contest to join the Anti-Money Laundering Division of the Defence Council of the State (CDE), created by law in that same date. In 2003 I assumed the Headquarters of this Division.

It is interesting to emphasize that this Division conducted the most important cases against criminal organizations related to this crime, as much in its stage of investigation as in Courts, obtaining tens of sentences and important seizures of goods.

Professionally, it was a challenge to integrate and later to direct, a specialized unit, formed by lawyers, accountants, police and others, that interacted with their pairs in places and as diverse countries as Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Panama, the United States, Canada, Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Hong Kong and others. Within these professional cases, there were them as diverse as an ex- President, important, national and foreign entrepreneurs, and as different businesses as airline companies, money services, shipment companies, hotels, etc.

Also, this position gave me the opportunity to represent my country in different international organisms like O.A.S., FTFA, Egmont etc.; to participate like speaker in diverse congresses and forums, as well as to attend multiple courses and specialized studies.

As all circle is closed, in March of 2008 I resigned to my directive position, fundamentally to dedicate to the consultancy in risk associated to money laundering and financing of the terrorism; being able also to continue to be part of CDE as a lawyer, enjoying then the privilege of to participate in both sides of the mirror, looking for the wonders behind them.

FORUM PRESENTATION:
"The Pinochet Case”


Mr. Ridzwan Aminuddin

Ridzwan Aminuddin heads up Country-Check, a new service measuring country risk across 243 countries and territories. Developed by World-Check, this advanced risk index takes 43 separate risk criteria into account in a
highly standardised manner.

In his capacity as Project Manager, Ridzwan has worked with some of the leading mathematicians and computer scientists around the globe to incorporate the latest cutting-edge statistical algorithms and models relating to objective risk ranking into Country Check.

A graduate in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Ridzwan has conducted extensive research in the field of data mining, and also published multiple papers on topics such as ‘Anticipatory Event Detection’ specifically in the field of ‘Automated News Stream Monitoring’ systems and ‘Search Engine Indexing and Crawling Mechanisms’.

Ridzwan has delivered presentations at a number of conferences around the world, including the annual World-Check sponsored Compliance Leadership Forum, one of the leading global events for senior compliance officers, which is also fast becoming the key forum for defining the next level of challenges facing the risk management industries.

FORUM PRESENTATION
"Country-Check: Country Risk Indexing”