Hemrish Aubeelack
HEMRISH AUBEELACK
Hemrish Aubeelack is an independent ethics and compliance adviser supporting boards and executive leadership teams to design, strengthen and embed ethics, compliance and financial crime programmes across international organisations. He specialises in business ethics, anti-corruption, anti-financial crime, sanctions and trade restrictions, human rights, and corporate governance.
Hemrish brings a combination of consulting and in-house leadership experience gained across Europe, Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. He has led or advised on complex compliance initiatives involving policy and procedure development, enterprise risk assessment, third-party due diligence, compliance investigations, culture and training programmes, digitisation, and processes to comply with extra-territorial legislation, including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act.
Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Hemrish served as Group Ethics & Compliance Manager at Tullow Oil plc, where he led the company's global compliance programme. Earlier, he designed and implemented the ethics and compliance programme for a US$20 billion engineering and construction project delivered by Fluor and WorleyParsons in Kazakhstan. He began his international consulting career with GoodCorporation, advising multinational organisations on business ethics, anti-corruption, corporate responsibility and human rights. During this time, he conducted more than 800 ethics and compliance interviews across over 30 countries and collaborated with organisations including the Institute of Business Ethics, Basel Institute on Governance, Danish Institute for Human Rights, City of London Police Overseas Anti-Corruption Unit, FBI, World Bank, Transparency International and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
Recent assignments have included advising organisations such as Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, AngloGold Ashanti plc, Petra Diamonds Ltd, Imperial Brands plc, Harbour Energy plc, Kenmare Resources plc, PZ Cussons plc and Tullow Oil plc on ethics, compliance, governance and financial crime matters.
Hemrish is regularly invited to contribute to ethics and compliance events and currently serves as an independent member of the Board Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee of the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA), and the Board Safeguarding & Ethics Committee of Oxfam GB.
Hemrish holds an LLB from King's College London, awarded under the State of Mauritius Laureate Scheme (first place nationally), an Executive MBA with distinction from Bayes Business School, and an International Diploma in Anti-Money Laundering from the International Compliance Association. He is a Fellow and Certified Practitioner of the International Compliance Association and a Fellow of the Mauritius Institute of Directors.
Languages: Mauritian Creole, English, French and Hindi.
MEMBERSHIPS
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Fellow of the International Compliance Association (UK)
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Fellow of the Mauritius Institute of Directors (Mauritius)
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Independent member of the Board’s Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee – Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (pan-Africa)
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Independent member of the Board’s Safeguarding & Ethics Committee – Oxfam GB (UK, with projects globally)
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
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