CAO's small but diverse team includes professionals from the private and nonprofit sectors with experience in dispute resolution, compliance, social and environmental best practice, cross-cultural communication, research, advocacy, and professional administration.
CAO Staff
Meg Taylor, 
Vice-President
Meg Taylor, a national of Papua New Guinea, received her LL. B from Melbourne University, Australia and her LL.M from Harvard University, USA. She practiced law in Papua New Guinea and serves as a member of the Law Reform Commission. She was Ambassador of Papua New Guinea to the United States, Mexico and Canada in Washington DC from 1989-94. She is co-founder of Conservation Melanesia and has served on the Boards of the World Wildlife Fund-USA and the World Resources Institute. She was a member of the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development. In addition, Meg Taylor has served as a board member of a number of companies in Papua New Guinea in the natural resources, financial and agricultural sectors.
Amar Inamdar, Principal Specialist, Ombudsman
A British national, Amar Inamdar leads complex multi-party dispute resolution process on sensitive private sector projects. Amar founded and managed a successful professional consulting practice in Oxford, U.K., focused on international investment. He was a major contributor to the U.K. government's White Paper on 'Making Globalisation Work for the Poor', and for two years worked to achieve a lasting compensation settlement between civil society groups and Rio Tinto in Indonesia. He has contributed to the M.B.A. program at the University of Oxford's Said Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Amar started his professional career as a corporate strategy consultant with Cap Gemini and worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature in Eastern Africa. He was born and lived in Kenya, educated at Oxford, U.K and has a PhD from Cambridge, U.K.
Henrik Linders, Senior Specialist, Compliance
Henrik Linders, a Swedish national has a professional background in private sector project compliance and corporate risk. Prior to joining CAO, Henrik served as an advisor for infrastructure projects, creating strategies and performing audits for companies over such issues as the environment, labor, health, safety, and management . These projects spanned Africa, South Asia, Europe and the Americas. He also served as senior project manager and environmental manager for a number of complex remediation projects in Norway and Sweden, and as manager at a Swedish environmental consultancy firm. Henrik received his M.S. in engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
Scott Adams, Specialist, Ombudsman
Scott, a US national, has over 17 years of diverse domestic and international experience in providing dispute resolution, management consulting, and training services. His clients and industry experience include the non-profit sector, government, higher education, utilities, health care, biotechnology, transportation, and international development. Prior to joining CAO, Scott founded and managed a private mediation and consulting practice. He has also served in senior positions at Search for Common Ground and CDR Associates, and was formerly an Associate in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Organization and Strategy practice. Scott received his B.A. in Political Science and Russian from Emory University and an LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Julia Gallu, Specialist, Ombudsman
Before joining CAO, Julia Gallu was a sustainability risk manager at Swiss Reinsurance Company in Zurich, Switzerland helping to develop sustainability risk management policies. Previously, she was part of the World Bank Group Extractive Industries Review team, and worked for IFC in the area of environmental and social standards and development impact measurement. Julia holds an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a M.A. Joint Honours in Politics and Economics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Julia is a German national.
Emily Horgan, Program Officer
Emily Horgan is a communications specialist with expertise in social and
environmental issues. Emily manages CAO’s communications and outreach program to civil society and other stakeholders. Before joining CAO, Emily worked for the World Bank Group Extractive Industries Review and IFC's environment and social development department, as well as the areas of operation evaluation, sustainability reporting, HIV/AIDS, and the Millenium Development Goals. Formerly, Emily worked for the Financial Times in London. A British national, Emily holds a M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. Joint Honours in Politics and History from the University of Durham, U.K.
Andrea Repetto Vargas, Operations Analyst
A Chilean national, Andrea Repetto has worked with human rights issues in Latin America. In Chile, she worked for academia and for a non-governmental organization dealing mostly with public interest matters. Prior to joining CAO, Andrea worked as a human rights specialist at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, mainly on following-up on human rights and international humanitarian law aspects of the demobilization process of the illegal armed group United Self-Denfense Forces of Colombia (AUC), and as country lawyer for Brazil. She earned her law degree from University Diego Portales in Chile, and a LLM in international and comparative law from the George Washington University Law School.
Susana Rodriguez, Research Analyst
An Ecuadorian and Spanish national, Susana received her M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and her B.A. in Political Science from Davidson College, NC. Before joining CAO, she worked in various local and international NGOs in the U.S., Switzerland, and South Africa, as well as for UNDP in Ecuador. Susana’s areas of professional interest are conflict management and African studies.
Clare Gardoll, Research Analyst
Clare Gardoll, an Australian national, received both her BA in International Relations & Languages and LLB from the University of Sydney. Before joining CAO, she undertook internships in a private legal firm in Australia focusing on international arbitration and a consulting firm in Peru specializing in Corporate Social Responsibility. Clare’s areas of professional interest are dispute resolution in post-conflict societies and international humanitarian law.
Paula Panton, Executive Assistant
A Jamaican national, Paula brings to the CAO over 25 years of experience working with IFC. Known as the “Field Marshall,” she works directly with Meg Taylor and provides administrative support to the unit.
Charity Agorsor, Consultant Services Assistant
A Ghanaian National, Charity Agorsor came to the CAO with extensive experience from IFC's Industry Departments and provides procurement assistance to the CAO office. She is the contact point for all consultants hiring and other Resource Management transaction processing for the CAO.
Rosemary Thompson-Lewis, Program Assistant
A U.S. national and native of Washington, DC, Rosemary came to the CAO from the Environment and International Law Department at the World Bank. Rosemary brings a life of rich and eclectic experience to the CAO and works directly with the Principal Specialist Ombudsman, Amar Inamdar.
Members of the World Bank Group