Mary Jones (WTO)

Mary Jones currently heads the Office of Internal Oversight (OIO) at the World Trade Organization, where she is responsible for the investigation, audit, evaluation, and inspection functions, advising the Director General on integrity risk management and reporting to Member States.  She has over 25 years’ practitioner and leadership experience in oversight functions across the public, private, charitable, humanitarian, and multilateral organisation sectors. She started her career in first responder roles, followed by criminology research focusing on crime reduction, social inclusion, ethical compliance and evaluation for government agencies, police forces, and non-profits. She then worked in trailblazing roles in Anti-Fraud and Corruption in an International NGO and went on to set up and lead the Investigations and Speak Up functions at the world’s largest university publisher. She is a certified fraud examiner, accredited intelligence and strategic assessment specialist, and senior qualified investigative interviewer. Mary is also the former Executive Director of the Association of Corporate Investigators where she led foundational initiatives to professionalise corporate investigations, including establishing global Investigation Principles and Good Practice Guidance, and authored a number of articles on internal investigation best practice. She currently Co-Chairs the United Nations Representatives of Investigative Services (UN-RIS) and is active in PSEAH and other oversight communities of practice and working groups.