Detlef Geiges

Team lead of 14 Assurance Partners in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia/Eurasia / Global Assurance Methodology Lead.

 Accountable for delivering global, regional and local Assurance programs in EMEA

 Supervising significant investigations

Main initiatives:

Assurance hub in Warsaw, Poland

 Establishment of an Assurance hub structure in the AZ Warsaw office

 Development of Assurance Partners from other countries into new roles and recruitment and onboarding of new Assurance Partners in Poland with multiple language skills

 Inclusion of global Assurance activities for data privacy and 3rd party risk management

 Currently 6 Assurance Partners in Warsaw

Compliance Analytics

 Full adoption of Compliance Analytics in regular Assurance activities

 Input into design and development as a member of the global Steering Committee

 Compliance Analytics now used to inform sampling for monitoring, to support investigations, to follow-up on deviations across main business activities, and to provide trend analysis for Senior Management

Revised Monitoring Guideline

 Responsible for development and implementation of a new global Monitoring Guideline to align sample size determination and sample selection across the regions

 The Guideline comprises several dimensions to inform sampling (country risk scores, qualitative dimension, emerging factors, adaptive monitoring, risk judgement, Analytics)

New monitoring areas

 Development of monitoring approaches for established or emerging business activities, e.g. Social Media, Retail Pharmacy Interactions, Distributors, Diagnostics, Nominated Signatories

 Consolidation of regional and global results and reporting to AZ Audit Committee