Breakfast Briefing: From Brussels to Beijing and Beyond
JUNE 26th 2025|08.30AM-10.30AM | COPENHAGEN
As sustainability and human rights regulations accelerate worldwide, businesses are under increasing pressure to align with evolving due diligence requirements across the entire product lifecycle. From the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) to frameworks emerging in China, Japan, and key U.S. states, global compliance is entering a new era—one that demands deeper transparency, accountability, and integration across supply chains.
Joanne O’Donnell, Head of Global Regulatory Compliance at Compliance & Risks, will speak at this exclusive breakfast briefing hosted by Nordic Sustainability. Drawing on over a decade of experience with Compliance & Risks advising multinationals on ESG and product compliance, Joanne will offer a fast-paced overview of key global developments in due diligence and human rights regulations and the impact they are having on the product lifecycle.
Speakers
Joanne O’Donnell: Head of Global Regulatory Compliance
With 21 years of post-qualification experience, Joanne heads up the Global Regulatory Compliance team at Compliance and Risks. She has extensive national and international legal experience in private practice, in-house, and industry, and has been with Compliance and Risks for over 12 years. She helps support its clients with their global legal compliance challenges with a particular interest and focus on Sustainability, ESG, Climate Change, Human Trafficking, and Slavery, as well as Business and Human Rights.
Joanne has a Bachelor of Arts (Legal and French) and a Bachelor of Law (LLB) from the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, as well as a Master’s in International Law (LLM) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. She also has a Master’s Degree in French from the University of Limerick, Ireland. She recently completed a Master’s course in Business and Human Rights at the University of Bergen, Norway. She qualified as a Solicitor with the Law Society of Ireland in 2003.
