Andrea is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association, and Chair of its newly formed Global Strategy Committee.
Until April of 2008, Andrea served as Bertelsmann’s Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, where she created and launched their global program starting in 2002. Bertelsmann is a $29 billion global media company with over 100,000 employees in 60 countries and operations covering books (Random House), music (BMG), magazines (Gruner & Jahr), radio and television (RTL), book and music clubs (Direct Group) and media services (arvato). In 2005 and 2006, the Bertelsmann ethics team received several prestigious awards for the originally developed Bertelsmann Family Feud Ethics Game Code of Conduct employee training program and the Bertelsmann’s Ethics & Compliance Intranet and E-Communications Program.
Andrea previously served as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of the global power division of PSEG (NYSE:PEG), a leading U.S. energy company. There, she oversaw the company’s worldwide legal, compliance, environmental and external affairs during a period of tremendous growth from $200 million in assets in 1995 to $4 billion in 2002. Prior to that, Andrea practiced international transactional law at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and King & Spalding. As a graduate student, she served as a political risk analyst for Bankers Trust Co., specializing in East Asian affairs.
Andrea serves on the Board of Directors of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA) and is the Chair of its Global Strategy Committee. She is co-leader of the newest ECOA project – The Ethics & Compliance Handbook: A Guide from Leading Organizations, a forthcoming publication written by practitioners for practitioners on best practices in governance, ethics and compliance. She is a member of the Executive Team of the Conference Board’s Global Council on Business Conduct, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the International Commission of Jurists. She has conducted many training and educational sessions on legal, compliance, risk management and corporate responsibility topics at conferences and seminars in North America and Europe and is adjunct faculty at NYU’s School for Continuing and Professional Studies where she has taught a graduate course on Global Corporate Governance, Compliance and Business Ethics.
Andrea has written and edited several books and numerous professional articles published by Compliance Week, the Ethics Resource Center, the International Financial Law Review and others. She is the author of Spain’s Transition to Democracy: The Politics of Constitution-making (Westview Press), past editor-in-chief of a bi-monthly newsletter, Focus Americas, and series editor of the multi-volume work, Commercial & Investment Law: Latin America (Transnational Publishers). Andrea holds a Joint J.D. in Law and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. She was born and raised in Europe, speaks several languages and has traveled extensively in Europe, the Americas and Asia. She lives in New York City with her family.
