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Biography

Jitka Logesová is head of firm-wide Corporate Investigation practice at Wolf Theiss. She specializes in corporate investigations, compliance, corporate criminal liability/white collar crime and asset recovery. Before joining Wolf Theiss, Jitka established and built up the firm-wide compliance, risk and sensitive investigations practice at another regional law firm. She was tasked by the Czech General Prosecutor's Office to help to draft the methodology for state prosecutors on how to evaluate corporate compliance management systems and educate the state prosecutors in this regard. She has wide experience in various sectors, particularly life science, infrastructure, professional services, IT and the public sector, where she advised clients on FCPA triggered issues and investigations, led number of corporate internal investigations in Central Eastern Europe and advised on various compliance issues including setup of anti-corruption and compliance programmes. Jitka is Senior Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Anti-Corruption Committee and a member of ICC FraudNet. In addition to her legal qualifications, she is a qualified Certified Auditor for ISO 19600 (compliance management systems) and for ISO 37001 (Anti-Bribery management systems). She has also published extensively on these topics and is a frequent speaker at compliance and anticorruption conferences. Jitka teaches at Business Ethics class as guest lecturer at the Anglo-American University in Prague.