Review Team
John Ambrose
John Ambrose, a Canadian national, has undergraduate (University
of Toronto) and graduate (McGill University) degrees in forestry
and forest ecology. His early career was with the Ontario
government as a natural resource planner. Since 1975 his international
work has included more than eight years as an environmental
management specialist in New Zealand, Kenya, and Nepal. For
three years he served as an environmental specialist at CIDA
(Ottawa). During the past ten years John has performed environmental
assessments for the World Bank. When not consulting he intensively
manages for biodiversity his 100 hectare property in the Thousand
Islands region of eastern Ontario.
Roger Batstone
Roger Batstone, an Australian national, received his PhD in
chemical engineering from the University of Queensland. Prior
to joining the World Bank in 1984 he spent 16 years in the private
sector working and consulting on environmental protection, industrial
pollution and safety. In the Bank's Environment Department he
carried our numerous project environment reviews and wrote several
technical papers. Subsequently Roger joined the East Asia and
Pacific region (EAP) and later developed the Europe and Central
Asia (ECA) environment unit where he task managed several environment
and infrastructure projects for the Bank and the GEF. Since
retiring from the Bank he has continued to consult for EAP,
ECA, and OED on environment and natural resource issues.
Nilufar Egamberdi
Nilufar Egamberdi, a national of Uzbekistan, is an anthropologist,
with an M.A. in anthropology from the Uzbek Academy of Sciences,
and is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Indiana University.
Prior to joining the review team, she worked several years in
the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia Socially Sustainable
Development Unit. Nilufar has fieldwork and research experience
in social analysis and social assessment, poverty, gender, stakeholder
and institutional analysis, and partnership development with
NGOs and civil society. She has regional experience in Europe
and Central Asia, and the Middle East.
Michelle Malcolm, Executive Assistant
to the Review Team
Michelle Malcolm, a Belgian national, has extensive experience
as a multilingual executive secretary and office manager in
public sector and multinational companies in Europe, the Middle
East, and Africa. Michelle joined IFC in 1990, working first
in theMiddle East Department and then in Sub-Saharan Africa,
where she became Office Administrator in 1996. In 1997, she
joined the Office of the Vice President for Finance and Planning
as the Executive Assistant to Birgitta Kantola, Vice President.
Upon Mrs. Kantola's retirement, she joined the Office of the
CAO in 2001, to provide administrative support for the Review
of IFC's Safeguard Policies.
Warren Van Wicklin, Team Leader
Warren Van Wicklin, a US national, received his PhD in political
science from MIT. Prior to joining the review team as the lead
consultant, he was a staff consultant in the Social Development
Division of the Asian Development Bank. Warren was a consultant
in the World Bank's Environment and Operations Evaluation Departments
(OED) for eight years. He was the task manager of the OED evaluations
on community participation and involuntary resettlement. He
has consulted for several international and US government agencies.
Warren has written numerous articles, book chapters and a book
on participatory development and involuntary resettlement. He
serves on the advisory board of a US public interest newsletter.
This page last updated: 09/19/2005
