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The Gemmological Institute of America (GIA) has appointed Katherine Palmer Andrews to the newly-created position of vice president of global compliance and ethics.
Andrews’ past roles have given her “extensive experience developing enterprise compliance programmes and leading global teams”, including six years in chief compliance roles at General Electric, GIA said.
It added that Andrews will work with GIA’s senior management to “ensure the integrity” of the institute’s compliance and ethics programme.
Susan Jacques, GIA’s president and CEO, said: “GIA has been named one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the last two years in recognition of the excellent work that has gone into our compliance programme.
“Katherine’s impressive skills and experience will help us build upon that success, ensuring that GIA continues as a leader in ethics and compliance.”
Andrews said: “It is paramount that we do our very best to ensure the public trust in gems and jewellery. I’m looking forward to working with my new colleagues at GIA to build the institute’s organisational capacity to meet the compliance challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. This will be my top priority.”
Andrews will work under Susan Jacques who was appointed earlier this year.
