Vera Cherepanova

Vera Cherepanova is a director, chair, board member, and ethics advisor specializing in corporate governance, risk, compliance, and business ethics. She serves as Executive Director of Boards of the Future, a US nonprofit advancing ethical leadership at board level. She chairs ACCA’s Global Forum for Governance, Risk and Performance, advises the Compliance and Business Ethics Association of Kazakhstan, and serves on the Steering Committee of ComplianceNet. She authored the first Russian-language book on compliance, contributes columns to Corporate Compliance Insights, and publishes with Thomson Reuters, FT The Banker, ACCA, and other outlets. She delivers keynotes for the World Bank, OECD, Compliance Week, and other organizations, and received the U.S. EB-1A extraordinary ability designation in Compliance & Ethics. She divides her time between Milan and Los Angeles.