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Ms Rachel Kyte
Vice President, Business Advisory Services, IFC

Rachel Kyte is Vice President, Business Advisory Services, for IFC. Previously, she served as Director of IFC's Environment and Social Development Department. At the department, which she joined in January 2004, she stewarded the development and adoption of the new sustainability policy, performance standards and disclosure policy for IFC and has overseen an overhaul in internal systems and procedures to support the strategic importance IFC places on environmental and social sustainability. The IFCs new Performance Standards serve as a basis for Equator Principles which have now been adopted by over 45 financial institutions. Prior to this appointment, Ms Kyte was Principal Specialist in the Office of the Compliance Adviser/Ombudsman of IFC/MIGA. She managed the Ombudsman function, investigating and offering conflict resolution to complaints filed in relation to the private sector activities of IFC and MIGA. Before joining IFC, she was Senior Policy Adviser, Senior Adviser on Gender and Representative to the European Union for IUCN, The World Conservation Union.

A graduate of the University of London and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Ms Kyte has worked extensively within the environment, women's and health movements as a policy analyst and advocate. She has worked with and for private sector concerns on private/public partnerships in the fields of health and environment and has served as an adviser, and on the boards, of a number of NGOs, private philanthropic foundations, the United Nations, and government. She has taught negotiation and public policy at a number of institutions.

 

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