Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos

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Valerie Amos 2007 during the World Economic Forum

Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos CH , PC (born March 13, 1954 in Georgetown , Guyana ) was the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator (USG / ERC) from 2010 to 2015 . Prior to her position at the United Nations, she was the British High Commissioner for Australia.

Life

Amos was born on March 13, 1954 in Georgetown, Guyana and graduated from Bexley Technical High School for Girls (now: Townley Grammar School for Girls). She then studied at the University of Warwick , University of Birmingham and the University of East Anglia . In 1995 she was appointed honorary professor at Thames Valley University . She received an honorary doctorate (Dr. of Laws) from the University of Warwick in 2000 and from the University of Leicester in 2006 .

In August 1997 she was promoted to Life Peeress as Baroness Amos , of Brondesbury in the London Borough of Brent, and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since . Amos was briefly Secretary of State for International Development in 2003 . From 2003 to 2007 she held the offices of Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords .

On July 4, 2009, it was announced that Amos had been appointed British High Commissioner to succeed Helen Liddell . She took office in October 2009 and is therefore on leave from the House of Lords , where she represented the Labor Party .

After Gordon Brown's election victory as Prime Minister, Amos left the cabinet and was nominated by Gordon Brown as the European Union's special envoy to the African Union.

In July 2010, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced that Amos would take over the post of Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator (USG / ERC) and consequently also head the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) will act. On September 7, 2010, she took up both positions. On June 1, 2015, she handed over the position to Stephen O'Brien .

In 2019 Amos was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Web links

Commons : Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at the House of Lords ( Memento of March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35284&Cr=appoint&Cr1=ban+ki-moon ( Memento from July 10, 2010 on WebCite )
  3. ^ The Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator - Valerie Amos ( Memento of December 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ The Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator - Stephen O'Brien ( July 22, 2015 memento in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Amos, Valerie Ann, Baroness Amos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amos, Valerie Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Guyana