Dr Evelyn Dietsche

Dr Evelyn Dietsche currently serves as a member of the Inspection Panel of the World Bank Group’s Independent Accountability Mechanism. She is also an Associate Fellow of swisspeace, a University of Basel-affiliated institute focused on peace and conflict studies.

Evelyn is an internationally renowned expert on natural resource governance, comparative public policy and responsible business conduct with 30 years of operational and strategic-managerial experience in the multinational corporate sector and the international advisory and consultancy business. Many of her assignments included providing thought leadership, strategic advice and hands-on operational support for multi-year initiatives focused on leveraging the positive and mitigating the adverse macroeconomic and social impacts of large-scale resource sector investments. She has also advised several multinational and bilateral development agencies on cumulative sector impacts and sector-based development of local content and skills.

Alongside her professional career, Evelyn has taught and/or conducted research on these and related topics with the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, the International Affairs think tank Chatham House, the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at Queensland University, and the University of Basel.

Evelyn holds a Doctorate in Resources Sector Governance from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (University of Dundee, Scotland), an MSc in Development Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and an MA in Public Policy and Management from Konstanz University (Germany). Other postgraduate training included macroeconomic and fiduciary risk management, climate finance and urban forestry.