Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos, PC ( born March 13, 1954 in Georgetown, Guyana ) is the eighth UN Emergency Relief Coordinator ( Under- Secretary - General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, USG / ERC ). Prior to your office at the United Nations, she held the position of the British High Commissioner to Australia.

Life

Valerie Ann 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 employed as an honorary professor at Thames Valley University. In 2000 she received an honorary doctorate ( Dr. of Laws ) from the University of Warwick and also in 2006 from the University of Leicester.

Amos was in 2003 briefly Secretary of State for International Development. From 2003 to 2007 she held the offices of Lord President of the Council and the Leader of the House of Lords. The upper house they heard since her appointment to the Life Peer in August 1997.

On 4 July 2009 it was announced that Baroness Amos was appointed as successor to Helen Liddell, the British High Commissioner. She joined this office in October 2009 and is therefore granted leave by the House of Lords, in which she represented the Labour Party.

After the election victory of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister Valerie Amos left the Cabinet and was nominated as a Special Envoy of the European Union to the African Union by Gordon Brown.

In July 2010, announced to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki -moon that Baroness Amos assume the office of the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator ( Under- Secretary - General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, USG / ERC ), and thus at the same time as head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA ) will act. On 7 September 2010 she appeared at both offices.