Janine Ferretti, a Canadian, German, and U.S. national, is an environmental and social expert with experience in policymaking and the design and implementation of development operations across both the public and private sectors. In 2020, she was appointed by the World Bank Group President to lead the Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) for IFC and MIGA, following an independent selection process. She began her five-year term in January 2021 as CAO Vice President and became Director-General in July 2021 with the adoption of the new IFC/MIGA Independent Accountability Mechanism Policy (the new CAO Policy).

Previously, she was a Professor of the Practice of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Pardee School, where she taught on environment, climate, and development issues. She also served as the first Chief of Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESG) at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she established and led the ESG Unit and helped develop the Bank’s Environmental and Social Policy Framework. Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, an international organization established by Canada, Mexico, and the United States.