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Jo Morgan has been an in-house legal adviser for 20 years, initially as a lawyer for IMI plc (a global industrial engineering company) where she was Deputy General Counsel. After IMI was prosecuted by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for bribery and corruption, resulting in a guilty plea and a three-year DOJ-appointed Monitor, Jo became Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer for IMI. Jo moved to Rolls-Royce plc in 2014 whilst it was under investigation for bribery and corruption offences. In 2017 Rolls-Royce reached Deferred Prosecution Agreements with the Serious Fraud Office in the UK and the DOJ in the US, and a leniency agreement with the Federal Prosecution Service in Brazil, paying fines totalling £671m. After successfully completing all of Rolls-Royce required post-DPA reporting with the DOJ and the SFO, Jo bid farewell to Rolls-Royce and joined BT as Director of Ethics and Compliance in March 2020. The pandemic was a very challenging time to be looking after (amongst more traditional ethics and compliance topics) the communications regulations compliance team as the requirements for home internet usage and emergency services increased hugely and making sure the services were delivered properly and in accordance with the significant legal obligations on the UK’s national telecoms carrier was very highly pressured. In 2023 Jo decide to move back to her first love, engineering, and she joined Swedish engineering giant, Sandvik.