GRC Conference

Governance, Risk and Compliance (some argue for Control instead of Compliance) is GRC.  This Conference is for everyone who wants to stay updated in these areas and hot topics such as ESG, Cyber, Fraud, AML, Leadership, Communication, Insights etc. In this conference you will able to listen to a mix of the best speakers in these areas from Sweden, Europe and the rest of the world. If you work with risks, economy, controlling, follow up, audit, internal control, compliance and security this is the conference for you. Come and mingle with colleagues and learn more!

THE LARGEST ARENA IN EUROPE FOR GOVERNANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE 

The result of a fruitful co-operation between The IIA Sweden, Compliance Forum and SWERMA, the GRC Conference brings together hundreds of professionals, world-class speakers, senior executives and suppliers within governance, risk and compliance.

THANK YOU!

A heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated at GRC Conference 2025 on April 9-10! To all the great speakers, sponsors, moderators, workshop leaders, attendees and volunteers – your presence added great value to the conference.

PIA HEIDENMARK COOK
BOARD NON-EXEC, SENIOR ADVISOR, AUTHOR, KEYNOTE SPEAKER. FORMER CSO AT INGKA/IKEA
TITLE: DRIVING TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES

Pia Heidenmark Cook enjoys a portfolio career, dividing her time between board, senior advisory and
keynote speaking roles mainly across Europe and North America. She is serving as non-executive
director on corporate boards across healthcare (Bupa), materials innovation (Origin Materials) and
restaurants (MAX Burgers), and chairs the advisory board of the professional services company The
DO Group. She is also Senior Advisor to the private equity company Eurazeo’s Planetary Boundaries
Impact Fund, and to Teneo (CEO Advisory Firm).

Prior, Pia worked at IKEA/Ingka Group for 13 years. The last five years (2017-2021) as Chief
Sustainability Officer (CSO). At IKEA she led the development and implementation of the IKEA People
and Planet Positive strategy. During this time, IKEA ranked in the top three most sustainable brands1
and managed to decouple carbon dioxide emissions from its commercial growth across the value
chain. Pia has worked with sustainability topics since 1996, across academia, consulting, and business.
She has lived in France and Belgium, is married to a Canadian and lives in Southern Sweden.

Her first book, “Embedding Sustainability” (Kogan Page, 2024) was published in July 2024. She is also
mentoring young professional women. She is also a frequent keynote speaker/lecturer on
sustainability and business transformation at e.g., Lund University (Sweden), Cambridge Institute for
Sustainable Leadership (CISL), INSEAD, Boards Impact Forum and Competent Boards’ Executive
Training in addition to several corporate events and conferences. Pia has been recognized for her TED
talk, “How IKEA is Growing Business Whilst Shrinking Emissions” and in 2024, a survey named her one
of the most sought after speakers on sustainability. Pia has been recognized as one of the world’s top
female leaders in sustainability and one of the world’s leading influences on climate change. In 2023,
she was named Top 20 Sustainability Voices by the CEO Magazine and received the Global 50 Women
in Sustainability Awards by SustainabilityX® Magazine. Pia was named top 10 female leaders in
sustainability by WBCSD in 2018, and top 5 influencers on climate change agenda by the Climate
Group, as well as top 100 climate influencers on Twitter in 2020.

Films:
• Decade of Action Documentary by Wim Vermeulen and Bart Lombaerts, December 2020.
• TEDx Countdown, October 2020.
• More on YouTube and on Spotify (numerous podcasts)