Lola Adekanye's guest appearances

Lola Adekanye

Compliance Perspectives

KickBack - The Global Anticorruption Podcast

SCIX African Trade Talks

Jack Goldsmith

Michael Johnston

Cristina Bicchieri

Kate Bateman

Robert Barrington

Ray Fisman

Charles Davidson

Paul Lagunes

Mihaly Fazekas

Debra LaPrevotte

Norm Eisen

Daria Kaleniuk

David Barboza

Michael Hershman

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

OwlTail

In this episode, Ms. Lola Adekanye shares insights based on her journey in commercial law, making businesses operate responsibly, ethically across the continent and reducing corruption. She also touches on business intergrity and governance.      Ms. Lola Adekanye is a licensed attorney, a member of the New York State Bar and the Nigerian Bar, with more than a dacade of experience as a corporate attorney and compliance specialist.          Book recommendations:     Atomic Habits by James Clear Uncaptured by Mosilo Mothepu   Podcast recommendations: Democracy that delivers by Center for International Private Enterprise

In this episode, Ms. Lola Adekanye shares insights based on her journey in commercial law, making businesses operate responsibly, ethically across the continent and reducing corruption. She also touches on business intergrity and governance.  Ms. Lola Adekanye is a licensed attorney, a member of the New York State Bar and the Nigerian Bar, with more than a dacade of experience as a corporate attorney and compliance specialist.  Book recommendations: Atomic Habits by James Clear Uncaptured by Mosilo Mothepu Podcast recommendations: Democracy that delivers by Center for International Private Enterprise

Reducing Corruption in Africa by Lola Adekanye

Post by Adam TurteltaubWhile in most cases the pandemic created nothing but challenges, Lola Adekanye (LinkedIn), Senior Program Officer for the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) reports in this podcast that, in some respects, it provided some benefits.While initiatives to encourage transparency and integrity were stretched, employees endured indefinite periods of working from home and governments were challenged with their budgets, the commitment by citizens and civil society to promote anticorruption and integrity grew.So, even though the risk for corruption increased, there was also a rise in whistleblowing, particularly in Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria. Most of the activity in this area revolved around the acquisition and distribution of Covid-related supplies, not surprisingly.  The transportation sector also saw a rise in corruption.Government procurement has continued to be a sore point, with many cases of collusion, price-fixing and kickbacks. But, consumer goods have seen a decline.For the long term she sees a collision between two forces. On the one side are traditional, authoritarian regimes with higher corruption. On the other side, which she thinks will prevail, are young people and institutions coming together to find ways to hold government and companies accountable.Listen in to learn more about the present and future of anticorruption efforts in Africa.

Post by Adam Turteltaub While in most cases the pandemic created nothing but challenges, Lola Adekanye (LinkedIn), Senior Program Officer for the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) reports in this podcast that, in some respects, it provided some benefits. While initiatives to encourage transparency and integrity were stretched, employees endured indefinite periods of working from home and governments were challenged with their budgets, the commitment by citizens and civil society to promote anticorruption and integrity grew. So, even though the risk for corruption increased, there was also a rise in whistleblowing, particularly in Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria. Most of the activity in this area revolved around the acquisition and distribution of Covid-related supplies, not surprisingly.  The transportation sector also saw a rise in corruption. Government procurement has continued to be a sore point, with many cases of collusion, price-fixing and kickbacks. But, consumer goods have seen a decline. For the long term she sees a collision between two forces. On the one side are traditional, authoritarian regimes with higher corruption. On the other side, which she thinks will prevail, are young people and institutions coming together to find ways to hold government and companies accountable. Listen in to learn more about the present and future of anticorruption efforts in Africa.

Lola Adekanye on Corruption Risk in Africa [Podcast]

Lola Adekanye (@lola_kanye) is a Senior Program Officer, Africa at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Her background in compliance and banking got Lola interested in development and ethics, a stopover at the World Bank. Lola describes CIPE’s work at the intersection of the private and public sector, using market-oriented reforms to tackle corruption, with the key goal: drive up the cost of corruption and drive up the cost of compliance.Lola describes joint work with the University of Sussex trying to get a better understanding why people do not engage in corruption. She also describes concrete ideas against corruption, such as the Compliance Clubs in Kenya that provide a support network for enterprises to do business without engaging corruption. The interview touches on how corruption in Subsaharan African is often a survival issue, listen to the short term reasons to develop long term solutions. They follow the principle of 3R consisting of:How to RESPOND to request of corruption by providing them with realistic alternatives RECORD the request and pass it on to the higher levelREPORT the request in order to get an estimate of how often such payment request occurLola describes the Ethics first project as an example for realistic ethics guidelines and cautions against short-term impact measures as change often takes time and requires institutionalization of ethics. Her advice for young scholars is crucial: stay in the game and don’t burn out by taking small steps towards improvement.Strengthening Ethical Conduct and Business Integrity: A Guide for Companies in Emerging Markets: https://www.cipe.org/resources/strengthening-ethical-conduct-business-integrity-a-guide-for-companies-in-emerging-markets/Free Anti-Corruption online course: https://cipe.course.tc/login?error=no_cookie&amp;id=&amp;course_title=Anti-Corruption%20Compliance%20Training&amp;wp=/ac-compliance/

Lola Adekanye (@lola_kanye) is a Senior Program Officer, Africa at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Her background in compliance and banking got Lola interested in development and ethics, a stopover at the World Bank. Lola describes CIPE’s work at the intersection of the private and public sector, using market-oriented reforms to tackle corruption, with the key goal: drive up the cost of corruption and drive up the cost of compliance. Lola describes joint work with the University of Sussex trying to get a better understanding why people do not engage in corruption. She also describes concrete ideas against corruption, such as the Compliance Clubs in Kenya that provide a support network for enterprises to do business without engaging corruption. The interview touches on how corruption in Subsaharan African is often a survival issue, listen to the short term reasons to develop long term solutions. They follow the principle of 3R consisting of: How to RESPOND to request of corruption by providing them with realistic alternatives RECORD the request and pass it on to the higher level REPORT the request in order to get an estimate of how often such payment request occur Lola describes the Ethics first project as an example for realistic ethics guidelines and cautions against short-term impact measures as change often takes time and requires institutionalization of ethics. Her advice for young scholars is crucial: stay in the game and don’t burn out by taking small steps towards improvement. Strengthening Ethical Conduct and Business Integrity: A Guide for Companies in Emerging Markets: <a href="https://www.cipe.org/resources/strengthening-ethical-conduct-business-integrity-a-guide-for-companies-in-emerging-markets/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cipe.org/resources/strengthening-ethical-conduct-business-integrity-a-guide-for-companies-in-emerging-markets/</a> Free Anti-Corruption online course: <a href="https://cipe.course.tc/login?error=no_cookie&amp;id=&amp;course_title=Anti-Corruption%20Compliance%20Training&amp;wp=/ac-compliance/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cipe.course.tc/login?error=no_cookie&amp;id=&amp;course_title=Anti-Corruption%20Compliance%20Training&amp;wp=/ac-compliance/</a>

46. Lola Adekanye on the anti-corruption efforts by the Center for International Private Enterprises