March 16th, 2006

Seminar details
Cordura Hall, room 100
3:30pm-5:00pm

Speaker biography
Dorothy Hamachi Berry is Vice President, Human Resources and Administration, for the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. She is playing a leadership role in an organizational change effort to create a flexible, people-oriented IFC that is able to respond to changing client demands and to overcome internal boundaries.

Under Ms. Berry’s leadership, the IFC has received the board of director’s endorsement of innovative compensation practices that are unique in the World Bank Group and are designed to help create a performance culture. These include:

• a long term incentive program to provide monetary awards to teams and individuals for outstanding developmental and financial results over time
• performance awards programs which reward organizational units, teams, and individuals for exceptional delivery against annual performance objectives
• a competency-based career progression scheme for investment officers which is designed to strengthen the skills and knowledge base of IFC’s core occupation.

Prior to joining IFC, from March 1996 to December 1998, Ms. Berry was Vice President, Human Resources, for the World Bank, where she led the human resource policy reform, approved by the board in March 1998, a significant change in personnel and compensation policies for the Bank group.

Ms. Berry has extensive experience in managing significant change in complex organizational environments, both in the public and private sectors. Immediately before joining the World Bank Group, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management at the U.S. Department of Education, where she was responsible for a broad range of management functions, including human resources, information technology, labor relations, facilities management, and business process reengineering. She played a key role in a government-wide review to improve customer service and efficiency of the federal government, and has held senior-level positions in the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and Texaco, Inc. Ms. Berry was born and raised in Kamakura, Japan. She holds a Bachelors degree from Cornell University and a Master’s degree in public administration from New York University. She is married to Andrew Clark Berry and has a 14-year old son, Andy.

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