Dame Meg Taylor DBE (born 1951) 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 to 1994 she was Ambassador of Papua New Guinea to the United States, Mexico and Canada in Washington DC.Until 2014 Taylor was Vice President, Compliance Adviser Ombudsman for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group.On 31st July 2014 it was announced that Dame Meg Taylor would take up the appointment of Secretary General to the Pacific Islands Forum based in Suva Fiji; she becomes the first woman to hold that post.
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