Flavia Milano

Flavia milano

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Attorney in law, Business, Human and Environmental Rights - Stakeholders Engagement Lead Inter American Development Bank - World Bank Citizen Engagement Advisory Expert Council.

  • Education

    • Unesco uned

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      Specialization development & environment specialist development & environment education
    • University of buenos aires

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      Attorney master's degree international law & human rights international law and legal studies lawyer - attorney

      Activities and Societies: Buenos Aires Federal BAR Association Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales

    • Harvard university, john f. kennedy school of government

      2016 - 2018
      Awarded a certificate of completion for the public leadership program, 3 years government civil society private sector harvard public leadership program, 2015-2018

      Activities and Societies: Harvard Public Leadership Program, 2015-2018, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Executive Education.

    • Harvard university

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      Public leadership certification goverment school
    • Sapienza università di roma

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      Master's degree poverty reduction and development specialist master poverty reduction & development

      Activities and Societies: Facolta d'Ingegneria

    • Sapienza università di roma

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      Master's degree development and poverty reduction
  • Experience

    • Societe generale

      Jan 1996 - Mar 1998
      Jr. legal officer corporate business
    • Idlo

      Jan 2000 - Feb 2002
      Jr. legal advisor for latin america & intelectual property projects

      Legal Adviser: responsible to elaborate the IDLO Latin American’s strategy for the econimic, social and cultural rights program promoting and advising on their creation and growth. Legal Adviser: Intellectual Property Division program to support the economic rights for Civil Society Organizations in Latin America.

    • United nations

      Jan 2004 - Jul 2004
      Legal & development jr. advisor

      Implement advisor to the Bolivian Childhood and Youth Minister, UNFPA; international and local organizations. Field Assessment: Legal adviser for Bolivian Criminal reform initiative including gender issues. Responsible to lead the investigation of the legal cases occurred in La Paz and el Alto among tribunals of both cities working in coordination with judges, local Civil Society Organizations. Legal Protection advisor: Frame program project designer, project budget. Final Legal opinion and recommendations Show less

    • Glocal forum

      Jul 2004 - Feb 2007
      Peace builiding department rwanda & italy coordinator

      Peacebulding coordinator for projects in Nablus, Addis Ababa, Asmara, Freetown, Kigaliand city to city cooperation program with meetings in Washington DC, Ankara, Rome.Rwanda country directorCity to City cooperation program financed by the World Bank

    • International organization

      Mar 2007 - Jun 2011
      Country representative mozambique: development, environmental & economic rights' projects

      Country representative: Responsible to represent the organization before government, corporations and international partners in Mozambique. Program Leadership and Management: Expert adviser in charge of the day-to-day coordination of the team of experts on the Business & Human Rights/Biodiversity projects, Water & Sanitation, Monitoring and evaluation of the project managers’ work. HQ and field missions responsible: Responsible to build of analysis all the regional organization’s programs; consultative and coordination mechanisms; programs based on strategic Government’s analysis, international rule of law standards and development directives. Establishing and maintaining working relationships with the international corporations, development community, government, and donors.Ensuring strategic growth: In coordination with HQ, negotiate contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements. Participate in HQ worldwide strategic planning.Capacity Building and Sub-grant Management Supervising: Coordination the sub-grant management process, including: new project design, local partners and government need assessment. Responsible to maintain formal meetings and conduct agreements with local, national and international governments involved, UN agencies and CE or/and stakeholders requests. Finance/Personnel/Legal frame: staff coordination, monitoring overall and project’s financial planning. Preparing and signing agreements with partners, donors and corporations. Ensuring policies and procedures are clearly communicated to staff, and are respected. Control project’s procurement and logistics. Ensure the existence and effective operation of financial controls. Review financial reports to ensure accuracy and completenessMonitoring & Evaluation: field missions manager, analyzing program challenges and difficulties and its possible solutions. Show less

    • Washington dc human rights/congo/nigeria/guinea/sierra leon/liberia/mali

      May 2011 - Apr 2013
      Director, business & human rights - natural resources

      Business & Human Rights: Expert professional on economic, social and environmental rights, with focus on resource rich communities in Africa and Latin America. Business & Human Rights projects with mining and oil companies. Adviser corporations’ efforts to implement Business and Human Rights Principles, Standards and Guidelines Designer on implementing new strategies: Regional coalitions on B&HR. Implement in-country “Funds Allocation Management” strategy to support civil society organizations access to information tracking their government finance planning and transparencyEvaluator on new emerging groups and civil society organizations. Corporate supporting, on in-site corporate field operations and resource rich communities’ to address the advocacy plan. Management and Board of Directors adviser on Business & Human Rights strategies. Leading field missions: Conduct assessments and monitoring & evaluations missions in Africa and Latin America: Republic of Congo, Mali, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leon, Nigeria, Uganda, Mozambique, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Argentina.Speaker on international conferences and workshops on Business & Human Rights: Leading regional meetings in Nigeria on Access to Remedy; collaborating with the ACPHR natural resources working group in The Gambia, participating to the UN B&HR forum in Geneva, UN Global Compact experts' meeting in London, DIHR B&HR meeting in Copenhagen. Organize Business & Human Rights three days discussions with 14 African representatives, corporations and government in London, UK.Participating on Regional and International Human Rights Forums and Roundtables: Advocate on environment & and human rights before ACHPR; ECOWAS; OAS; UN, EITI, World Bank, IMF, UN Global Compact.Managing Program Budget of the overall program budget, the sub grant budgets and budget planning.Recruiting new team’s experts Show less

    • Inter-american development bank

      May 2013 - now
      Team leader/ operations lead specialist

      Advisor to the Vice President for Countries on civil society/citizen engagement related topics. Lead of AI & digital tools on citizen engagement related.: https://wiconnect.iadb.org/en/news-opportunities/Lead technical publications on Climate Change, Extractive Industries https://wiconnect.iadb.org/en/category/publicaciones-en/Lead IDB Group-Civil Society/Citizen Engagement Annual Meetings https://wiconnect.iadb.org/en/eventos-y-foros/Design and lead the new IDB Group-Civil Society Engagement StrategyDesign and lead the IDB Group-Civil Society Engagement Action PlanLead over + 20 team members working on citizen engagement related topics. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Harvard awarded certification on public leadership

      Harvard kennedy school executive education
      Apr 2016
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Flavia Milano
      BAR Member of Colegio Publico de Abogados de Buenos Aires -
    • Awarded to Flavia Milano
      World Bank Group's Expert Advisory Council World Bank In a joint effort, the World Bank has appointed Flavia Milano to join its Group of Experts on Citizen Engagement: “Having led the design, the contents and the implementation of the IDB Group’s New Strategy, with the inputs and participation of highly experienced IDB internal specialists in various sectors and the contributions of more than 500 citizens, governments and enterprises from Latin America and the Caribbean, this is a great opportunity to contribute by becoming part of the World… Show more In a joint effort, the World Bank has appointed Flavia Milano to join its Group of Experts on Citizen Engagement: “Having led the design, the contents and the implementation of the IDB Group’s New Strategy, with the inputs and participation of highly experienced IDB internal specialists in various sectors and the contributions of more than 500 citizens, governments and enterprises from Latin America and the Caribbean, this is a great opportunity to contribute by becoming part of the World Bank’s Group of Experts. This joint work attests to the World Bank and the IDB’s determination to incorporate diverse experiences, as well as the strong commitment of those of us who work on development issues to learn, know and improve lives from a sustainable and innovating growth perspective." Show less