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Asian Development Bank appoints new chair to Compliance Review Panel

13 April 2009 08:03 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev-APA-Economics. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed a new Chair, Rusdian Lubis, to the Compliance Review Panel, a body that helps address the concerns of people affected by ADB-assisted projects, said the ADB Office in Baku.
Mr. Lubis is expected to assume the post â€” which has a five-year term â€” on a full-time basis starting 13 April 2009. He replaces Mr. Augustinus Rumansara whose term expired on 13 December 2008.
The Panel is part of ADBâ€™s Accountability Mechanism that allows people, who believe they have been adversely affected by ADB-assisted projects, to express their concerns and seek solutions. They can also report alleged noncompliance with ADB’s operational policies and procedures.
Mr. Lubis, an Indonesian national, was the Director and Senior Advisor of PT ERM Indonesia prior to his ADB appointment. He has chaired Dana Mitra Lingkungan (Environmental Funds) since 2008, and in 1986, founded Yayasan Waetasi, a nongovernment organization involved in coastal conservation work in Sulawesi, Indonesia.
He has more than 30 years of experience in environmental management. He graduated from Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Agricultural and Resources Economics from Oregon State University in the United States.
The other members of the three-person Compliance Review Panel are Mr. Antonio La ViÃ±a and Ms. Anne Deruyttere, who have been working as part-time members since 1 June 2007 and 21 July 2008, respectively.
Mr. La ViÃ±a, a Philippine national, is presently Dean of the School of Government at Ateneo University in the Philippines. Previously he was a Senior Fellow at the Institutions and Governance Program for the World Resources Institute, United States from 2001 to 2006 and the Director of the Biological Resources Program for the same organization from 1998 to 2001.
From 1996 to 1998, he was the Undersecretary for Legal and Legislative Affairs of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Philippines. Mr. La ViÃ±a graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy before obtaining a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of the Philippines. He later received both a Master of Laws degree and a Doctorate degree in the science of law from Yale Law School in the United States.
Ms. Deruyttere is a Belgium national who is presently an International Consultant with the World Bank, the International Fund for Agriculture Development and the German Technical Cooperation Agency, where her work includes portfolio reviews and the policy papers related to indigenous peoples rights, ethno development and social safeguards. She also has 25 years of experience working for the Inter-American Development Bank. Ms. Deruyttere graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium with a Master of Arts degree in Economics and received a Master of Science in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.