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Julia Gebhardt joined Boston Consulting Group in 2008. She is a core member of the leadership team for compliance, risk, and ESG. Julia has significant compliance and risk experience with financial institutions, as well as in industrial goods, health care, and other industries.

Julia specializes in compliance, ethics, and risk transformation programs that ensure effective and efficient compliance risk management as well as sustainable cultural change. She supports clients in developing and implementing their compliance strategy and management systems and advises them during compliance crises. She also works on remediation programs and monitorships.

Julia is a core member of the Risk & Compliance team, and the Industrial Goods and Financial Institutions practices. She is an expert in digital transformation. Julia speaks English, French, Spanish, and German.

Before joining BCG, Julia worked at BMW Group AG Financial Services, and at UnternehmerTUM, center for innovation and startups of Technical University Munich.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) corporate entrepreneurship, Technical University of Munich
  • Master in International Business Administration, (Internationale Diplomkauffrau), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Publications and Videos

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New Ways to Combat Rising Complexity and Costs: Global ESG, Compliance, and Risk Report 2024

Companies need a holistic strategy to coordinate requirements, clearly define responsibilities, and effectively use advanced technologies.
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Simplified Risk Assurance Enhances Performance in Process Industries

By alleviating burdens on daily activities, companies can free up valuable resources and promote cost efficiencies while improving compliance and resilience.

The Future of Compliance–Forward-Thinking Ideas for Compliance Executives

BCG’s Katharina Hefter and Julia Gebhardt outline the biggest changes and advancements in risk and compliance—and share their perspectives on how to act now

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The Regulatory Climate Is Getting Hotter for Private Equity

US and EU regulators are scrutinizing financial services more closely, and that is impacting PE firms. Leaders need to up their game to remain in compliance.
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Closing the Transatlantic Divide in US Monitorships in Europe

US compliance monitors of a Europe-based multinational companies should be proficient in navigating the confluence of transatlantic business cultures, legal frameworks, and corporate governance practices.
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Mature Risk Management in Uncertain Times

A BCG study reveals how top-performing companies effectively addressed the risk management challenges of recent crises and what other companies can learn from them.
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Preparing for the EU Green Claims Directive – How Companies Can Eliminate Greenwashing at Its Source

The EU Commission just published a proposal for a Green Claims Directive that aims to create a harmonised set of rules on the substantiation and communication of green claims.
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EU Data Act - Boon or Bane for the Automotive Industry

Data – gold of the digital age is in many industries controlled by some players. The EU tries to make data transparent, usable, and valuable with the new EU Data Act.
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Making Provisions — Responding to the DOJ’s Expansion of Its Corporate Enforcement Policy and the Monaco Memo

On January 17th, 2023 the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. delivered remarks on revisions to the Criminal Division’s Corporate Enforcement Policy. This followed Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco previewing the changes on September 15, 2022. With this paper, we lay out the key elements of these changes and its implications for corporations across the globe.
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Global ESG, Compliance & Risk Report 2022

Today’s complex regulatory environment poses not only enormous challenges for compliance functions but also an opportunity for companies to hone an important competitive edge.

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Perspectives on Monitorships and Successful Compliance Transformation

Read BCG’s Compliance Magazine Special Issue to learn how companies should prepare for monitorships, what the main challenges and key success factors during the monitorship term are and to understand the benefits of successfully completing a compliance monitorship.
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Navigating The Tide: Global ESG, Compliance & Risk Report 2021

This report discusses how companies around the world are navigating a rising tide of regulatory and consumer expectations to optimize their compliance target operating models (TOMs). The insights here are based on a global, cross-industry survey of more than 150 companies. The report reveals the maturity of companies' approaches, resource availability and organizational context, as well as current progress on the digitization of key functions.