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‘I’m contributing, through my work, to make a better world. Each partnership on the vaccines field represents more people protected against some diseases’, says Fatima Picoto legal director for Brazil at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a global healthcare company. Picoto currently leads a team of six, which helps to support the company’s mantra of ‘improving the quality of human life’. During her tenure, Picoto has developed a team which is able to maintain what she describes as the ‘right balance between business partner and governance’ and has added value to GSK by ensuring that clients receive high ethical standards that allow the business to grow in sustainable way. Picoto has been influential the development of GlaxoSmithKline’s ‘Anti-bribery and corruption’ framework (ABAC), an act which has ensured the organisation’s compliance with the highest ethical standards and all anti-corruption laws applicable. The implementation of the ABAC has guaranteed internal personnel and third parties acting on behalf of the business adhere to the organisations zero tolerance approach to all forms of corruption and the maintenance if accurate records in relation to all business dealings.