Jean-Pierre Méan  is a lawyer admitted to the bar in Quebec/Canada and in Switzerland. He has been General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of SGS, an international inspection and verification company based in Geneva/Switzerland, from 1996 to 2008, with an interruption in 2002 and 2003 when he was Chief Compliance Officer of the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction. He is President of the Swiss Chapter of Transparency International and chairs a Task Force of the International Chamber of Commerce which has reissued the ICC Rules on Combating Corruption in 2011.