Kiribati RPCV Meg Kinghorn has been appointed as Pact’s Impact Alliance Director.



Kiribati RPCV Meg Kinghorn has been appointed as Pact’s Impact Alliance Director.

Pact appoints Meg Kinghorn

Meg Kinghorn has been appointed as Pact’s Impact Alliance Director. The Impact Alliance is a new Pact initiative to create a global multi-sectoral alliance among leading-edge capacity building organizations. The Alliance will facilitate the sharing of ideas, resources and opportunities among a network of peers and make available to the relief and development community the best and most cost-effective local talent to meet local capacity building needs. Internet technology will expand direct relationships through a web portal site located at www.impactalliance.org.

“Meg Kinghorn’s leadership and experience in capacity building ideally suits her to launch this exciting new service delivery architecture,” said Pact president and CEO Sarah Newhall.

In addition to her work in capacity building, Ms. Kinghorn brings years of experience in the areas of program development and management, and workshop design and facilitation. She has worked with nonprofit and multilateral organizations in the United States and overseas. Prior to coming to Pact, Ms. Kinghorn was the senior technical advisor for capacity building and civil society for Catholic Relief Services (CRS), where she provided technical leadership and backstopping to CRS programming in 85 countries around the world. Before joining CRS Ms. Kinghorn staffed InterAction’s development policy and practice committee, focusing on facilitating the coalition’s efforts in reforming USAID’s procurement policies. Ms. Kinghorn spent four years overseas with UNDP programming and supporting a multicultural cadre of sectoral development volunteer specialists. Her UNDP posts included the Palestinian Occupied Territories, Eastern Europe and the South Pacific.

Ms. Kinghorn holds a master’s degree in intercultural management from the School for International Training and undergraduate degrees in social work and computer science. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Kiribati in the Central Pacific.

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