Carman Lapointe

In 2015, the Anders Kompass scandal broke at the UN. An internal UN report, entitled 'Sexual Abuse of Children by International Armed Forces', detailed allegations of sexual abuse by French soldiers serving with the peacekeeping operation Sangaris. Senior UN aid worker Anders Kompass, who knew the UN would not act on the report, leaked the internal report to French authorities, who reportedly thanked him.

After enormous outcry in the press, and concern by member states (like France and Sweden), an independent panel was set up by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, into the French UN peacekeepers child sex scandal in the Central African Republic. It later ruled Anders Kompass, had done nothing wrong in passing an internal document, and his dismissal was ruled unlawful. In January 2016 Kompass was informed in a letter that the internal investigation, run by the Office of Internal Oversight (OIOS), had cleared him of all charges. The panel also criticised the then head of the OIOS, Carman La Pointe, for abusing her authority by initiating the internal investigation into Kompass. She left her post 13 September 2015 upon normal completion of a non-renewable contract and five years in office.

Prior to joining the UN she was Auditor General for the World Bank Group headquartered in Washington, DC. She has also served as an auditor for Bank Of Canada and corporate auditor for Canada Post, among others. She was the first woman Chairperson of The Institute of Internal Auditors in 1995.

Carman Lapointe (born 1951, in Canada) was Under-Secretary-General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) from 2010 to 2015.