Staff

Meg Taylor, Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
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, UK, focused on international investment. He was a major contributor to the UK 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 MBA 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, UK and has a PhD from Cambridge, UK.

 

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 MS in engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology.

 

Kate Kopischke, Specialist, Ombudsman

Before joining the CAO in 2005, Kate worked as an independent mediator and facilitator specializing in multiparty conflicts and consensus building. A U.S. National, she is experienced in both private and public sector dispute resolution and has mediated a number of cases involving economic development, the environment and natural resources, and public-private partnering agreements. She earned a Master’s degree in intercultural communication from the University of New Mexico, and for five years served as a program manager for the Policy Consensus Initiative, a U.S.-based NGO that works with public leaders to strengthen and encourage the use of consensus-based approaches to governance.

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.

 

Paula Panton, Executive Assistant, Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman

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.

 

 

Rosemary Thompson-Lewis, Program Assistant

A U.S. national and native of Washington, DC, Rosemary Thompson 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 Senior Specialist, Ombudsman, Amar Inamdar.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Last updated: 11/20/2008