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, Senior Specialist, Ombudsman
Amar Inamdar, a British national born in Kenya, has a professional background in organisational design, management and cross-cultural dispute resolution. Between 2000 & 2002 he successfully mediated settlement of an eight-year dispute between Rio Tinto and civil society groups in Indonesia . He was a major contributor to the UK Government's White Paper on 'Making Globalisation Work for the Poor' in 2000. He is the founder of a successful consulting practice in Oxford, UK, and has practical experience of private sector investment strategies in the Caspian, China, SE Asia, East & Southern Africa, and the Middle East . He obtained his first degree at Oxford and his PhD at Cambridge, UK.

 

 

Henrik Linders, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor

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

A U.S. national, Kate Kopischke worked as an independent mediator and facilitator specializing in multiparty conflicts and consensus building. 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, and for five years worked as Program and Communications Manager for the Policy Consensus Initiative, a U.S.-based NGO that works with state leaders to strengthen and encourage the use of consensus approaches to governance.

 

 

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.

 

 

Michelle Malcolm, Program Assistant, Compliance Advisor

A Belgian national, Michelle Malcolm came to the CAO with extensive experience as a multilingual executive assistant and office manager in the private and public sectors in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. She provides administrative and consultant support to the CAO as a whole and works with Henrik Linders on compliance.

 

 

Rosemary Thompson, Program Assistant, Ombudsman

A U.S. national and native of Washington, DC, Rosemary Thompson brings a life of rich and eclectic experience to the CAO. Working for the CAO empowers her to believe that the extraordinary is possible and that the World Bank’s mission statement is attainable.

 

 

 

Kate Henvey , Research Assistant, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman

A U.S. national and native of Texas, Kate Henvey has a professional background in human rights and social and environmental compliance. Before joining the CAO, Kate served at the North American Development Bank,assessing compliance with environmental and social loan covenants for infrastructure projects in the U.S.-Mexico border region. She conducted research on human rights issues, including gender and corporate social responsibility, at The Carter Center in Atlanta and the World Organization Against Torture in Geneva. She earned a Masters of Arts in International Relations, Conflict Resolution.

 

This page last updated: 8/24/2006