Abhishek Agarwal

About Abhishek Agarwal

Abhishek Agarwal is a global Ethics, Compliance & Sustainability executive with 15+ years of experience building integrity-led cultures across multinational organisations. As Global Head of Ethics, Compliance and Sustainability at Sutherland, he leads a programme spanning employees across 20+ countries — covering anti-bribery & corruption, AML, financial crime risk, whistleblower governance, ESG strategy, and enterprise-wide ethics training. He has driven 99.7% mandatory training completion globally and built an Ethics Ambassador Programme of 120+ volunteers.Under his leadership, Sutherland achieved an EcoVadis Gold Medal (score: 40 → 82 in four years) and published its first GRI/SASB-aligned Sustainability Report. Previously at PwC and KPMG, he led high-profile misconduct and FCPA investigations across multiple jurisdictions, conducted AML compliance assessments, and delivered corporate investigations training to senior leadership teams.

Experience

1. Associate Vice President

   Sutherland

   Jul 2023 — Present · IN

Education

• Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Chartered Accountant, Audit, Accounts, Taxation, Finance

  2006 — 2010

• CMR University

  Bachelor of Laws - LLB, Law

  2019 — 2022

Skills

• Internal Audit
• Forensic Accounting
• Financial Analysis
• Accounting
• Tax
• Ukba
• Due Diligence
• Fraud Risk Management
• Investigations
• Investigation
• Poca
• Financial Accounting
• Fcpa
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Private Investigations
• External Audit
• Auditing
• Internal Controls
• Finance
• Fraud