Joe Murphy, CCEP

Expertise:  All aspects of compliance & ethics

For over 45 years, Joe Murphy, CCEP, has been a tireless champion of compliance and ethics in organizations and has done compliance work on six continents. Joe has published over 100 articles and given over 200 presentations in 21 countries.  Joe is author of 501 Ideas for Your Compliance & Ethics Program and A Compliance & Ethics Program on a Dollar a Day. He is a Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional and a former member of the board of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics. Joe was named one of The National Law Journal’s 50 Governance, Risk and Compliance Trailblazers and Pioneers 2014 and received SCCE’s Compliance and Ethics Award. He has been recognized as a lifetime member of the Australian Compliance Institute.

Joe and Rutgers Professor Jay Sigler wrote the first book on compliance programs, Interactive Corporate Compliance, in 1988, 3 years before the Sentencing Guidelines were issued. He was a founder of one of the top online compliance training firms, Integrity Interactive (now part of SAI Global).  In 2010 Joe wrote the authoritative white paper on incentives as part of compliance programs, Using Incentives in Your Compliance & Ethics Program, which was cited in the DOJ/SEC FCPA guidance document. He also wrote Policies in conflict:  Undermining corporate self-policing, 69 Rutgers U.L. Rev. 421 (2017).

Joe organized and co-chaired the first Practising Law Institute programs on compliance. For 10 years he was editor of SCCE’s publication, Compliance & Ethics Professional. He also represented SCCE as a consultative partner in the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The National Law Journal, The American Bar Association Journal and Compliance News (Australia).

Joe has his BA from Rutgers University and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he was managing editor of the Law Review.

Winner of the 2026 Compliance Week Lifetime Achievement in Compliance Award