Carol Bellamy

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Carol Bellamy

Carol Bellamy (born January 14, 1942 in Plainfield , New Jersey ) is an American manager and politician .

Bellamy attended the private Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania , which she graduated in 1963. From 1963 to 1965 she went to Guatemala as a Peace Corps volunteer . She then returned to the East Coast to study law at New York University , which she completed with a degree in 1968. She then joined the law firm Cravath, Swaine and Moore in New York City , where she worked until 1971.

From 1973 to 1977 Bellamy was a member of the New York Senate . From 1978 to 1985 she was President of the New York City Council ; in this capacity she succeeded Paul O'Dwyer . She then filled out director positions in the private sector ( Morgan Stanley 1986–1990, Bear Stearns 1990–1993). Her candidacy for the city's treasurer for the Democrats in 1990 was unsuccessful.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton named her Director of the Peace Corps. Subsequently, in 1995 she was entrusted with the office of Director General of UNICEF by UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali . Boutros-Ghali's successor, Kofi Annan , granted her a second term in 2000, which ended in 2004.

Since 2005 Bellamy has been sitting in the director's chair of the US educational organization World Learning . In 2007 she was elected to the governing body of the NGO Fair Labor Association .

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  • Carol Bellamy, Jean Zermatten (Eds.): Realizing the rights of the child . rüffer & rub, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-907625-34-7 .

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SURNAME Bellamy, Carol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American manager and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Plainfield , New Jersey