DAME MEG TAYLOR APPOINTED NEW SECRETARY GENERAL FOR PACIFIC ISLAND FORUM SECRETARIAT

Dame Taylor

DAME MEG TAYLOR HAS BEEN APPOINTED NEW SECRETARY GENERAL FOR PACIFIC ISLAND FORUM SECRETARIAT. Dame Taylor was Papua New Guinea government nominee for three-year post as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), the Suva-based office which serves the 16-member regional organisation.

Dame Taylor will be second Papua New Guinean after Noel Levi who also was Secretary General. She will take over from outgoing Secretary Tuiloma Neroni Slade of Samoa, who completes his second term of office in October.

Dame Meg Taylor DBE (born 1951) is a lawyer and diplomat.

She received her LL.B degree from Melbourne University, Australia, and her LL.M degree from Harvard University, USA. She practised law in Papua New Guinea and serves as a member of the Law Reform Commission.

The daughter of Australian explorer Jim Taylor, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2002.

From 1989 to 1994 she was Ambassador of Papua New Guinea to the United States, Mexico and Canada in Washington DC.

Taylor is currently Vice President, Compliance Adviser Ombudsman for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group