Meg Taylor

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|name = Dame Meg Taylor

|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|GBR|DBE|size=95}}

|image = Dame Meg Taylor 2014 (cropped).jpg

|nationality = Papua New Guinean

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Diplomat
Lawyer
Track and field athlete}}

|order1 = 9th

|office1 = Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum

|term_start1 = 4 December 2014

|term_end1 = 24 May 2021

|predecessor1 = Tuiloma Neroni Slade

|successor1 = Henry Puna

|office2 = Ambassador to the United States, Mexico and Canada

|term2 = 1989–1994

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|alma_mater = {{ubl|Melbourne University|Harvard University}}

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Dame Meg Taylor {{post-nominals|GBR|DBE}} is a Papua New Guinean politician who served as Secretary General to the Pacific Islands Forum from 2014 to 2021. She was previously an athlete, lawyer and diplomat.

Life and career

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

The daughter of Australian explorer Jim Taylor,[http://dl.screenaustralia.gov.au/module/351 Jim Taylor profile], ScreenAustralia.gov.au; accessed 8 June 2015. 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 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.forumsec.org/pages.cfm/newsroom/press-statements/2014-1/pngs-dame-meg-taylor-will-be-pifs-first-female-secretary-general.html |title=PNG's Dame Meg Taylor will be PIFS First Female Secretary General – Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat |publisher=Forumsec.org |accessdate=2014-08-04 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808041947/http://www.forumsec.org/pages.cfm/newsroom/press-statements/2014-1/pngs-dame-meg-taylor-will-be-pifs-first-female-secretary-general.html |archivedate=2014-08-08 }}[http://www.transparencypng.org.pg/.../le_dame_meg_possitive_role_model.pdf Profile Transparencypng.org.pg]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}; accessed 8 June 2015.[http://www.cscaustralia.com/epld/photob_2.htm Profile] CSCAustralia.com; accessed 8 June 2015.

Achievements in athletics

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style="background:#eee;" colspan="6"\|Representing {{PNG}}
rowspan=2\|1971 \|rowspan=2\|South Pacific Games \|rowspan=2\|Pirae, French Polynesia \| style="background:silver;"\|2nd \|Pentathlon \|3386 pts
style="background:#c96;"\|3rd \|4 × 100 m relay \|50.4 s

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style="background:#eee;" colspan="6"|Representing {{PNG}}

rowspan=2|1971

|rowspan=2|South Pacific Games

|rowspan=2|Pirae, French Polynesia

| style="background:silver;"|2nd

|Pentathlon

|3386 pts

style="background:#c96;"|3rd

|4 × 100 m relay

|50.4 s

References

External links

[http://www.cao-ombudsman.org/about/staff/ CAO]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080908054559/http://www.transparencypng.org.pg/press_releases/le_dame_meg_possitive_role_model.pdf Transparency Papua New Guinea]

Category:Place of birth missing (living people)

Category:1951 births

Category:Living people

Category:Secretaries general of the Pacific Islands Forum

Category:Ambassadors of Papua New Guinea to the United States

Category:Ambassadors of Papua New Guinea to Mexico

Category:High commissioners of Papua New Guinea to Canada

Category:Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Category:Papua New Guinean lawyers

Category:Papua New Guinean women diplomats

Category:Papua New Guinean female sprinters

Category:Harvard Law School alumni