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Bernhard Gehra leads Boston Consulting Group's North America Risk & Compliance practice. Previously, he led the firm's global compliance and non-financial risk teams across all industries. He is part of BCG's global leadership team.

Bernhard has more than 20 years of experience in regulation, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) compliance, operational risk, and financial and non-financial risk. He has worked with many multinational companies around the world on issues related to governance, digitization, risk management, and compliance, and is the author of several books and articles about risk, regulation, compliance and non-financial risk management.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • PhD, information science, big data, and business intelligence, Ludwig-Maximilians-University
  • Master's degree, business, strategic management, and information science, Ludwig-Maximilians-University
  • Master's degree, business science and business research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University
  • Research Fellow, London School of Economics
  • Scholar, Friedrich Naumann Foundation

Publications and Videos

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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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Ethics during the Age of AI

As AI's influence grows, risk and compliance professionals must be proactive in ensuring ethical and responsible AI adoption.
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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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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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Why Your Company Needs a “Chief Trade Officer”

Sending and receiving goods across borders is becoming so complex—and the penalties for missteps so steep—that risk management in trade increasingly demands attention from the C-suite.
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ESG Compliance in an Era of Tighter Regulation

ESG regulations are growing more intricate, and businesses’ fragmented compliance efforts are proving inadequate. Companies should adopt a comprehensive approach to enable efficient risk management and reporting.
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New Anti-Money Laundering Requirements in the UAE: How Banks Can Adapt

BCG shares findings from client experience and industry benchmarking, offering ten practical solutions for turnaround maintenance planning. Read more.
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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.
Preparing Bank Compliance for Future Complexities

Preparing Bank Compliance for Future Complexities

As one type of global risk recedes, it’s a good time for CCOs and others with responsibility for compliance to get a clear view of the other challenges and opportunities they face.
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Global Risk 2021: Building a Stronger, Healthier Bank

Banks that fortify their core will emerge from the pandemic fitter and with the financial muscle to be a bulwark for customers and the broader community.