Oslo Roundtable with Ezekiel Ward
Date & Time: October 9th, 2025 | 3:30pm - 8:30 pm
Venue: House 21 | Kristian Augusts gate 21, 0164 Oslo, Norway
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What to expect
At this roundtable discussion for General Counsels and Chief Compliance Officers, we’ll be sharing experiences under the Chatham House Rule on two key challenges - sanctions enforcement and ethical ‘blind spots’.
Agenda
15:00 - Arrival
15:30 - Welcome
15:35 - Sanctions update
16:30 - Break
16:45 - Ethical ‘blind spots’
18:00 - Wrap up
18:30 - Dinner
About the speakers
You will be hosted by Ezekiel (Zeke) Ward. Zeke has been Chief Compliance Officer at Volvo Group and Yara International. He is a lawyer by education and a Fellow Chartered Accountant (ICAEW), with a forensic background at PwC and KPMG. Zeke founded North Star Compliance Ltd. in 2019 to offer leading companies pragmatic compliance advice.
Jeff Cottle is a partner at Eversheds Sutherland LLP. Jeff focuses on white-collar crime and compliance matters, with an emphasis on fraud, corruption, anti-money laundering, trade sanctions and export controls. Jeff is a dual-citizen of the US and UK and qualified in both jurisdictions. He spent 10 years as an in-house compliance officer. Jeff is a retired Commander in the US Naval Intelligence service.
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