Donna Douglas Williams, USA

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Donna has over twenty years of experience as an attorney, mediator, facilitator, trainer, and organizational ombudsperson, and is the former Director of the Ombuds Program at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She also served as Ombudsperson at UConn Health and Georgia State University and was the inaugural Ombudsperson for the South Korea- based Green Climate Fund (GCF), the financial mechanism within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, that assists developing countries in adaptation and mitigation practices to counter climate change.
Donna previously held the position of Ombudsperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland serving WHO and UNAIDS staff in global duty stations. Donna’s experience also includes consultant ombudsperson for the United Nations Funds and Programmes, responsible for serving global staff in several UN agencies, including UNICEF, UNDP, UN Women, and UNFPA.
Donna holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Purdue University, and a law degree from the University of California, Davis King Hall School of Law.