Karis McLarty is a Managing Director in the Investigations, Diligence and Compliance practice, and Global Head of Corporate Compliance and Business Ethics Advisory, based in London. Karis leverages more than 22 years of experience leading commercially pragmatic governance transformations of corporates, as a cross-border ethics, privacy and economic crime lawyer. She specializes in assisting listed international B2B and B2C businesses, private companies, startups and charities with tech/digital transformations. Karis helps her clients in (i) establishing commercially practical, benchmarked (COSO, ISO, SOX, etc.) ESG, privacy, ethics, human rights and compliance programs from scratch (ii) designing, interrogating and monitoring award-winning, efficient cross-border governance controls (covering sustainability/decarbonization, social, human and labour rights, anti-slavery, governance, economic crime and sanctions, cyber/data protection, AI, supply chain analysis, business ethics and governance and antitrust/competition issues) (iii) investigating and remediating controls breaches from corruption to cyber issues, including liaising with regulators on multinationals’ controls maturity and (iv) ESG reporting, preparing clients for promoting their ESG stance in public disclosures and tender submissions. Prior to joining Kroll, Karis served as Chief Compliance and Data Privacy Officer and ESG Lead at Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc, the U.S. listed media owner, setting up their compliance function, reducing control gaps by 98% in five years, achieving ISS Prime ESG Rating and A minus in CDP. Before that, she set up the compliance function at TUI AG, the German-listed travel conglomerate as Group Head of Legal and Regulatory Compliance. Karis has worked as a lawyer in private practice at Debevoise LLP and Clifford Chance LLP, where clients ranged from startups to governments and international institutions.