Alexandra A. Wrage
Alexandra Wrage is the president of TRACE, an international non-profit membership association working with companies to raise their anti-bribery compliance standards. TRACE provides anti-bribery compliance tools and services to member companies and their employees in more than 100 countries.
Ms. Wrage is the author of Bribery and Extortion: Undermining Business, Governments and Security and the host of the training DVD “Toxic Transactions: Bribery, Extortion and the High Price of Bad Business”. She has also written three guidebooks: The TRACE Standard for Doing Business with Intermediaries Internationally, The High Cost of Small Bribes, and First to Know: Robust Internal Reporting Programs. She speaks regularly on topics of international law, anti-corruption initiatives and the hidden costs of corruption, and she frequently writes articles for the business and legal media, including a quarterly column for Ethisphere Magazine.
Ms. Wrage serves as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s (“ABA”) Anti-Corruption Committee, Chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s International Legal Affairs Committee, an Advisory Board Member of the ACC Docket, and a member of the Working Group for the United Nation’s Global Compact 10th Principle.
As Chair of the Women in International Regulatory Law (“WIRL”) Steering Committee, Ms. Wrage directs and hosts the annual WIRL Symposium, held in Washington, DC. The event provides an opportunity for senior women in the field of international regulatory law to speak with young, upcoming lawyers in the field.
Ms. Wrage was named a 2008 “Maryland Innovator of the Year” by the Maryland Daily Record for TRACE’s BRIBEline project, one of the “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics” for 2007 and 2008 by Ethisphere Magazine, and one of “Maryland’s Top 100 Women” in 2003.
Prior to founding TRACE, Ms. Wrage served as Senior Counsel – International at Northrop Grumman. Ms. Wrage, a Canadian, studied law at Kings College, Cambridge University. She lives now in Annapolis with her husband and their two sons.
