Doel is a Director at FRA’s New York office. She has been a practicing attorney for over 17 years with significant experience as a compliance officer. She has developed compliance programs to fit varied business units including risk assessments, compliance-focused communications and trainings, and remediation actions for risk mitigation and enhancement of controls.
She has conducted and managed investigations into potential fraud, corruption, conflicts of interest and other types of corporate misconduct. Doel helps clients understand the often complex correlation between culture, business ethics, organizational justice and building trustworthy organizations.
Prior to joining FRA, Doel spent 15 years with IBM as in-house counsel and compliance officer. Doel was appointed the first Trust & Compliance Officer for IBM in the India/South Asia region. She advised regional general managers and other senior management in India/South Asia and South Africa on challenging, time-sensitive transactions, implementing and executing controls and other compliance initiatives in those higher risk territories. While assigned to IBM’s offices in New York, Doel was responsible for overseeing IBM’s global anti-corruption compliance program relating to its third-party resellers, distributors and worldwide channels organization. In this role, she worked with data analytics specialists to develop, execute and maintain analytics based tools and other automated solutions as preventive controls.
Doel graduated from the National Law School of India University with her B.A., LL.B. in 2000. She recently graduated magna cum laude from Fordham University School of Law with her LL.M., where she was also awarded the Carlos Hawker Award for the highest cumulative grades in the Corporate Compliance program.
Doel is a member of the New York City Bar Compliance Committee and Co-Chair of the Fordham Law Compliance Affinity Group.
Doel has lived and worked in Mumbai and Bangalore in India, and Johannesburg in South Africa. She is a native Hindi and Bengali speaker, and fluent in English.