Mette Jacobsgaard

Mette Jacobsgaard is the Senior Management Adviser to the International Development in Law (IDLO) Organistaion,  headquartered in Rome. She 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 strengthening in developing country and post-conflict contexts across Asia and Africa. She has extensive knowledge and in-depth experience of justice sector institutional capacity building through jointly working with sector Ministries and senior management counterparts in Attorney General’s Office, Prosecutions, the Judiciary, Prisons, Legal Education-, Law Reform- and Law Reporting institutions. Mette is a certified mediator with significant technical expertise in Alternative Dispute Resolution and strengthening court annexed mediation as well as informal justice systems through rights-based community justice approaches, legal awareness and empowerment.  Mette is a people manager, and human interaction and appreciative inquiry trainer. She was amongst the first few to pioneer the use Appreciative Inquiry world wide in the early 1990s. Mette holds a PhD and MPhil from Cambridge University, and speaks Danish, English, Italian, French and basic Kiswahili.