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Since his 2011 arrival, Michael Pass has worked on developing Freeport-McMoRan’s global compliance program. He also devised an online due diligence tool to deal with FCPA’s heightened demands (in his words ‘my most impactful achievement to date’). ‘I have had the opportunity to build something from the ground up – somewhat of a rarity in a large multinational corporation,’ Pass says. Communication, he feels, is key to implementing practices on this scale. ‘The biggest challenge I have is being everywhere at once. Posters, emails, and our intranet are great, but there simply is no substitute for sitting down with a group of people and talking about ethics and compliance. That’s a challenge when you have such a broad geographic presence as we have at Freeport’.