Carole Stern Switzer

Carole Stern Switzer, Esq., is the cofounder of the global nonprofit think tank OCEG, joining founder Scott L. Mitchell in January 2003. The organization’s initial mission was to improve corporate compliance and ethics by developing standards, andso it was called the Open Compliance and Ethics Group. As that work began in the spring of 2003, conversations amongst the drafting committee members expanded beyond compliance and ethics—moving into performance management, risk management, governance, and assurance. The team decided that what was needed were standards for a fully integrated approach to all these organizational aspects, focusing primarily on governance, risk management, and compliance. So OCEG created the term GRC to represent these (and additional) capabilities that would ensure the integration of governance, assurance, and management of performance, risk, compliance, and ethics.

Over the past 20+ years, Carole has been a leading expert in GRC, writing frequently on the topic and presenting keynote addresses at numerous events globally. She has continued to define and refine GRC concepts, authoring numerous resources published by OCEG and providing articles for many magazines and other publications.