Mette Jacobsgaard

Thematic expertise: Mediation, ADR, Legal Sector Development, Organizational Development, Appreciative Inquiry

Geographic expertise: Afghanistan, Albania, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, India, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Lesotho, Liberia, Mauritania, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal,  Sri Lanka, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, West Bank, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Languages: Danish, English, Italian, French

Mette Jacobsgaard has more than 35 years of substantive experience in the design, strategic leadership, management and delivery of large and complex multi-donor programmes in access to justice, rule of law, democratic governance, human rights, security sector reform and civil society.  She is an IMI certified mediator with significant technical expertise in Alternative Dispute Resolution and strengthening court annexed mediation as well as informal justice systems.  Mette is a people manager, and human interaction and appreciative inquiry trainer. She was amongst the first few to pioneer the use Appreciative Inquiry worldwide in the early 1990s. Mette holds a LLM from Copenhagen University and a PhD and MPhil from Cambridge University, UK. She is an active member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioural Science.