Compliance and Control Management

In today’s rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, compliance professionals must go beyond theory to deliver tangible value across their organizations. The Advanced Legal Program in Compliance and Control Management is designed to empower ambitious professionals with the practical skills, strategic insights, and global perspective needed to lead compliance functions in a digital and data-driven world.

Led by world-class academics, experienced regulators, and senior executives from top multinational companies, this advanced program bridges legal principles with real-world applications. Through a dynamic and interactive learning experience, you’ll gain cutting-edge tools to design, implement and refine effective control systems that mitigate legal and compliance risks while enabling organizational agility and innovation.

Whether you’re looking to step into a global compliance leadership role or strengthen your current function, this diploma equips you with the knowledge and confidence to anticipate risks, shape corporate governance, and drive ethical business performance across borders.

Through a flexible, modular format tailored for working professionals, the program combines live online sessions, immersive case studies, peer collaboration, and expert-led workshops. You’ll join a diverse cohort of compliance officers, legal counsels, auditors, and risk managers from around the world—building a powerful network that extends beyond the classroom. With a focus on innovation, technology, and global regulatory trends, this diploma positions you at the forefront of compliance excellence in the digital age.

The program combines academic rigor with real-world application through dynamic, hands-on sessions. Participants work with proven tools, templates and methodologies introduced by experienced faculty. Each module connects theoretical foundations with practical use cases drawn from international business and regulatory contexts, ensuring immediate relevance to professional practice.

Leveraging IE's liquid learning model, the program integrates live-online sessions, interactive forums, in-company projects and case-based discussions. This format allows participants to learn flexibly while remaining engaged with peers, faculty and industry experts. Exposure to diverse perspectives and cross-sector challenges strengthens both collaboration and critical thinking.

Throughout the diploma, participants develop core technical competencies in compliance systems, risk assessment, internal controls and data governance. At the same time, they build interpersonal and strategic capabilities—such as stakeholder communication and ethical leadership—essential for driving effective compliance and control across complex organizations.

This module provides students with tools to lead the implementation and management of a compliance program. It covers practices and recommendations to support a compliance policy and capabilities to address legal, regulatory and criminal law requirements. Furthermore, it develops processes to manage conflicts of interest, whistleblowing reports, due diligence, training and performance. After completing the module, students are able to apply best practices in corporate governance in supporting in-house or external compliance initiatives.

This module provides students with a roadmap to identify and measure risks in meeting control, contractual and regulatory requirements, fraud and security. It covers practices and templates to quantify risks for strong corporate defense based on the ISO 31022 on legal risks. Students will receive recommendations to communicate strategies to manage risks with advanced visualization tools. After completing the module, students are able to identify risk scenarios, and to quantify the impacts for reserves, compliance controls and insurance

In this module, students are guided to prepare, conduct and manage assurance audits with the ISO 37301 on compliance management systems. It covers the evidence and attributes to address a sucesuful certification of the requirements and challenges be ISO certified . After completing the module, students are able to address gaps and implement remediation plans to get a compliance management system certified.

This module focuses on the controls to meet cyber compliance requirements such as privacy, data protection, IT outsourcing and business continuity. It addresses how to comply with security requirements for data, applications, cloud and other IT assets such as the General Data Protection Regulation and the directive on security of network and information systems. The sessions will also cover the use of new technologies in compliance. After completing the module, students are able ito mplement and monitor legal measures to imcrease the level of cybersecurity and support digital forensics.

This module provides students with the personalized opportunity to interact with senior compliance officers to solve practical challenges in the areas and industries of interest. During the module, a senior compliance officer introduces a process to improve to the team of students to research alternatives and solutions. After completing the module, students have the opportunity to discuss their analysis and recommendations to thought leaders and executives.

This programme is designed for professionals who operate at the interface of regulation, governance, risk and control, and who want to deepen their expertise and strategic impact. Participants come from diverse functional backgrounds — legal, audit, information security, consulting or board‑level oversight — and join to strengthen both leadership competence and practical skills in compliance, control frameworks and performance monitoring. With an international outlook and hands‑on orientation, the course empowers them to drive change in complex organisational contexts.