Patrice Poitevin, CACM
Patrice Poitevin is the Co-Founder and Senior Advisor for Strategic and International Development for the Canadian Centre of Excellence for Anti-Corruption (CCEAC).
Mr. Poitevin is a 35 years veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and retired in October 2017 where he was the subject matter expert on Anti-Corruption and compliance for the RCMP. He has also worked on drugs, organized crime and white-collar crime investigations. He is an internationally recognized expert on anti-corruption, ethics and compliance and is sought as a speaker, lecturer and trainer. Mr. Poitevin also has extensive experience in program development and capacity building.
In his previous role as senior investigator and outreach coordinator for the Sensitive and International Investigations unit of National Division, Sgt (Retd) Poitevin’s mandate was to connect with Canadian businesses to help them mitigate their risk and exposure to bribery and corruption. Sgt (Retd) Poitevin worked with private and public organizations to advised them on tools, strategies and good practices to increase their capacity to prevent, detect and manage corruption risk and enhance the role of those organizations in fighting corruption.
Mr. Poitevin was part of Canadian project committee (PC278) involved in the development of the ISO 37001 Anti-Bribery management system standard and the UN Global Compact Network Canada Working Group that created the Anti-Corruption E-book. He is also a member of Transparency International Canada, a Certified Anti-Corruption manager (CACM - USA) and a member of Transparency International Expert Network. Mr. Poitevin is also an active member of the Standards Council of Canada's mirror committee MC/ISO/TC 309 – Organizational Governance (which provides guidance on the governance of organizations, anti-bribery management systems, and whistleblowing).
Mr. Poitevin has been working with Global Affairs Canada (GAC) Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) in sharing his expertise with other countries to help improve their anti-corruption capacity. As such, Mr. Poitevin has travelled to Colombia and Indonesia and is providing on-going assistance, training and support in establishing a Centre of Excellence for Anti-Corruption in both countries modelled on the CCEAC. He also advises private and public organizations on the implementation of the ISO 37001 standard and on ethics, compliance and anti-corruption related issues.
He is a frequent guest speaker at anti-corruption conferences and events and is a guest contributor on various on-line publications and blogs. He lectures on anti-corruption issues to business and law students at various universities and is the co-founder of the Global Anti-Corruption University Project (GAUP). Mr. Poitevin is also a media commentator and has published several articles in various business and trade magazines.