International Fund Appoints Michelle Beistle as Ethics Officer and Head of Ethics Workplace
31 January 2024
The International Fund is happy to announce the appointment of Michelle Beistle as the brand new Ethics Officer and Head of the Ethics Workplace.
Michelle focuses on ethics, compliance and privateness and brings greater than 20 years of expertise from each the non-public and non-profit sectors to the function. She is an lawyer by coaching with lengthy expertise creating and sustaining moral cultures. She started her profession in a personal legislation agency as a litigator earlier than becoming a member of Unisys, a worldwide expertise firm, the place she targeted on maturing and main their privateness, ethics and compliance capabilities, first as Chief Privateness Counsel and Privateness Officer after which Chief Compliance Officer, Privateness and Ethics. Most not too long ago, Michelle served as Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at The Nature Conservancy, a worldwide environmental non-profit group.
The appointment of a brand new Ethics Officer follows a rigorous and aggressive search course of. To welcome Michelle, Peter Sands, Government Director of the International Fund, mentioned: “The International Fund has a strict zero-tolerance coverage in the direction of any types of abuse. Sustaining moral conduct and integrity is important to making sure profitable implementation of our applications and to place an finish to the three illnesses. We’re happy to welcome Michelle as our new Ethics Officer. Her in depth expertise in ethics and compliance in each private and non-private sectors will allow her to supply wonderful steering to workers and companions throughout the globe, and to make sure continued compliance with the best moral requirements when finishing up actions supported by the International Fund.”
A citizen of the US, Michelle holds a Bachelor of Arts diploma in worldwide relations from Boston College and a Juris Physician diploma from the Catholic College of America Columbus Faculty of Regulation. She is a Licensed Compliance and Ethics Skilled – Worldwide (CCEP-I).
Michelle will begin her new function on 18 March 2024.
