GIA Creates VP of Ethics and Compliance Position

(IDEX Online News) – Giving its strong ethical standing a further boost, GIA (Gemological Institute of America) has created the new position of vice president of Ethics and Compliance. Katherine Palmer Andrews, a former chief compliance officer at General Electric Co. has been appointed to the role.

GIA has been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the last two years.

“It is paramount that we do our very best to ensure the public trust in gems and jewelry,” said Andrews, who added in a press release from the GIA that her top priority will be to build GIA’s organizational capacity to meet the compliance challenges and opportunities that it will meet in the future.

Andrews joins GIA from Thomson Reuters, where she developed an enterprise-wide compliance program. She also has experience with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, in private practice and as an in-house attorney for GE Energy.