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The Secretariat
Global Corporate Governance Forum
IFC/World Bank Corporate Governance Department
The World Bank Group
2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20433, USA
E-mail: cgsecretariat@ifc.org
Telephone: +1 202 458-1857
Facsimile: +1 202 522-7588



Philip Armstrong is the Head of the Global Corporate Governance Forum. Philip is an internationally acknowledged expert on corporate governance and was the principal convener and main editor of the 2002 King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa and headed the team which produced the Commonwealth Guidelines. A Corporate Secretary by profession, he has extensive private sector experience at a senior level.
Tel: +1 202 458 9114
Email : parmstrong@ifc.org

Eugene Spiro is a Senior Projects Officer with principle responsibility for Asia. Prior to joining the Forum, Gene was Senior Program Officer at the Center for International Private Enterprise, where he was responsible for program development and management in the MENA and Africa regions. Earlier, Gene worked as a private banker at Coutts Bank (Switzerland), headed the EastWest Institute’s Budapest–based program on financial sector reform in Central and Eastern Europe, and held research positions at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Tel: +1 202 473 6026
Email: espiro@ifc.org

Marie-Laurence Guy is a Senior Projects Officer for the Forum. She presently manages various projects and works on developing corporate governance reform tools to help implement corporate governance reform efforts. She is currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria, and she works on projects targeted at Southeast Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Marie-Laurence previously worked as a project manager in the Corporate Affairs Division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the French Ministry of Finance, Economy and Industry.
Tel: +359 2 9697 224
Email : mguy@ifc.org

Ghita Alderman is a Projects Coordinator at the Forum. Her primary focus at the Forum is to coordinate the implementation of reform efforts in Africa in cooperation with other international institutions and regional key players. Ghita also organizes the Corporate Governance Leadership Program, which the Forum offers to a selected region on a yearly basis. Prior to joining the Forum, Ms. Alderman was practicing international business law in Washington DC., focusing on privatization of state-owned businesses.
Tel: +1 202 458 2905
Email : galderman@ifc.org

Marjorie Pavia is Program Officer at the Forum. Marjorie is charge of internal management for the whole team including budgeting and reporting. She also focuses on Forum's donor relationship and trust fund management. Before Marjorie joined the Forum, she has been working with IFC for eighteen years with various positions focusing on donor relations and business development.
Tel: +1 202 473 5344
Email: Mpavia@ifc.org

Angelita Yacat is Program Assistant at the Forum. Angelita supports the Forum's budget management and internal accounting processing. She also provides administrative support to Program Manager and the rest of the team. Angelita joined the IFC in August 2004. She has 8 years of working experience in the World Bank Group. Prior to that, she worked as an accounting technician for the US Air Force Base in Washington, DC for more than 5 years. She worked as Administrative Assistant for Department of Labor and Employment, Philippines and a Bachelor of Science Business Administration graduate from University of the East, Philippines.
Tel: +1 202 473 4968
Email: AMyacat@ifc.org

Cynthia Concordia is a Program Assistant at the Forum. Her main responsibility is to assist the team for the smooth implementation of the unit’s events/workshops related to trust-funded projects. Before her assignment with the Forum, she worked with IFC Development Effectiveness Unit (Financial and Private Sector Development Vice-Presidency) and was responsible for organizing trainings related to Development Impact and Development Outcome Tracking System (DOTS). Prior to joining the DE Unit, she worked with the Economics and Infrastructure Departments. Cynthia has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and in Commerce major in Business Administration from De La Salle University, Philippines.
Tel: +1 202 458 0257
Email: cconcordia@ifc.org