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Blue Pacific - Dame Meg Taylor
Dame Meg Taylor DBE is a Papua New Guinean 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 1989-94, she was Ambassador of Papua New Guinea to the United States, Mexico and Canada in Washington D.C. Until 2014, Taylor was Vice President, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank Group.
On 31 July 2014, it was announced that Dame Meg Taylor would take up the appointment of Secretary General to the Pacific Islands Forum, an intergovernmental organization that aims to enhance cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean; she became the first woman to hold that post.