- The World Bank Group, is inviting applications for an opening on its Inspection Panel. Members must have a deep understanding of development issues and a track record of involvement in the complexity of development projects, exposure to the private sector’s involvement in such projects, impeccable personal and professional integrity, sound judgment and intellectual rigor, a strong record of…
- Members of the Inspection Panel have unanimously elected Imrana Jalal as Panel chairperson, effective December 16, 2018. Ms. Jalal will succeed Gonzalo Castro de la Mata, who has been the chairman of the Panel since November 2014. Mr. Castro de la Mata will remain as chairman until his five-year term as a Panel member ends on December 15, 2018. A gender specialist, lawyer and development…
- The Inspection Panel on May 11, 2018, registered two Requests for Inspection of Mining Infrastructure Investment Support Project and its Additional Financing (MINIS). At the same time, the Panel issued a Notice of Non-Registration for a third complaint related to MINIS, noting that this Request concerned subject matter on which in 2017 the Panel did not recommend an investigation. The Panel found…
- Inspection Panel Chairman Gonzalo Castro de la Mata took part in two workshops in China designed to enhance financial intermediaries’ (FIs) understanding of environmental and social compliance and accountability to project-affected people. The first workshop – co-organized by the Policy Research Bureau of the China…
- Miranda is a recent graduate of Princeton University, where she majored in History and was the recipient of the History Department’s Stone/Davis Thesis Research Prize. She is interning at the Panel as a member of the 2017 class of Truman Scholars, and will be spending the next year in the United Kingdom as a Fulbright Scholar. In the summer of 2017, Miranda served as one of the only undergraduate…
- Reinett Erkan joined the Panel’s Secretariat staff on June 1, 2018, as senior operations officer. A South African national, she has extensive experience in environmental and social matters. Ms. Erkan most recently was a consultant with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), where she worked as a lead environmental and social specialist. She covered several sectors in that role,…
- The Inspection Panel on June 12, 2018, hosted a group from American University’s Washington College of Law, including about two dozen participants in the annual conference of The Association of Transnational Law Schools (ATLAS). Panel Operations Officer Birgit Kuba explained the Panel’s history, mandate and operations to the group. Ms. Kuba and fellow Operations Officer Tamara Milsztajn also…
- The Inspection Panel on June 13, 2018, joined representatives from three other independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs) to explain the IAMs’ work to a meeting hosted by the Washington Area Branch of the International Association of Impact Assessment. Panel Executive Secretary Dilek Barlas and officials from the World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman and the IAMs of the Inter-American…
- The Inspection Panel on May 15, 2018, held a video conference (VC) with approximately 50 civil society representatives in five French-speaking countries in Africa. Operations Officer Tamara Milsztajn and intern Alice Schoonejans explained the Panel’s mandate and operations to civil society representatives in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Niger and Guinea, then took questions on a wide range of…