- Mr. MacNeill, a Canadian national, was appointed to the Inspection Panel in 1997, and served as Chair from 1999 to 2001. Mr. MacNeill is a policy advisor to international organizations, governments, and the industry on environment, energy, management, and sustainable development issues. He served as OECD’s Director of Environment, and prior to that he was a Deputy Minister in the Government…
- Mr. Alvaro Umaña-Quesada, a Costa Rican national, was appointed to the Inspection Panel in 1994 and served to 1998. Prior to that, Mr. Umaña-Quesada served as Costa Rica's first Minister of Natural Resources from 1986-1990. He is Professor and Director of the Natural Resources Management Program at INCAE, a Latin American Graduate School of Management. Mr. Umaña-Quesada is a member of the…
- Mr. Richard E. Bissell, an American national, is the Executive Director of the Policy and Global Affairs Division at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., Chair of the Independent Review Mechanism at the African Development Bank, and Lead Compliance Officer for the United Nations Development Program Social and Environmental Compliance Unit. He has also served as a Member of the…
- Gonzalo Castro de la Mata was appointed to the Inspection Panel on December 16, 2013, and became its chairman on November 1, 2014. He is a U.S. and Peruvian national with close to three decades of international development experience. His career includes key roles across the private and public sectors and in multiple areas of development work, including biodiversity, climate change,…
- Dr. Zeinab Bashir El Bakri was appointed to the Inspection Panel on September 1, 2012. A national of Sudan, she brings to the Panel more than 20 years of development experience. Dr. El Bakri built a broad career at the African Development Bank (AfDB), where her last position was vice president of operations from 2006-2009. Between 1991 and 2005, she served in a number of positions…
- Jan Mattsson was appointed to the Inspection Panel on November 17, 2014. A Swedish national, he brings to the Panel more than three decades of experience in the public and private sectors, as well as in academia. His career has included operational field work, policy advice, program management, and leadership roles at the United Nations where he established robust systems for results-based…
- Tamara Milsztajn is an Operations Officer at the Inspection Panel. She has seven years of professional experience working with issues related to social inclusion, gender and social and environmental safeguards. For the past three years, she worked with the World Bank’s Safeguards Policies and was part of the team that is leading the Review and Update of the Safeguards Policies. Her experience…
- Rob Doherty joined the Inspection Panel in February 2016 as a communications adviser, and was appointed Senior Communications Officer in November of that year. He began working at The World Bank as a communications consultant in April 2015 after more than three decades as a journalist, including 25 years with Reuters in Washington, Cyprus and London. Among the positions he held at Reuters were…
- Oriana Bolvaran joined the Inspection Panel Secretariat in January 2013. Her responsibilities include providing administrative and budget support to the Panel Members and Panel Secretariat. She is a certified SAP transaction processor. Oriana joined the World Bank in November 1994. Prior to joining the Panel Secretariat, her experience in the Bank covered four different Vice Presidency Units:…