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Baroness Valerie Amos shares her journey to becoming the first black female Cabinet minister in the UK, and her insights on what it takes to succeed. Subscri...
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Baroness Valerie Amos of Brondesbury was appointed a Labour life peer in 1997 and was the first black woman to serve as a Minister in the British cabinet and in the House of Lords. She has consistently sustained an interest in, and a commitment to, development issues, and to equality and human rights. Valerie was an adviser to the Mandela ...
Baroness Valerie Amos is the Master of University College Oxford. She was appointed a Labour life peer in 1997 and was the first black woman to serve in a Br...
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Baroness Valerie Amos is the Master of University College Oxford. She served in the British Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development and Leader of the House of Lords (2003-2007). She was Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations (2010-2015) and was UK High Commissioner to Australia (2009-2010).
Baroness Valerie Amos is the Master of University College Oxford. She previously served as Director of the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London from 2015-2020. From 2010, Valerie served as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the UN.
6 ott 2003 · Born in March 1954 in Guyana, Valerie Ann Amos began her career in local government, working in various London boroughs from 1981 to 1989. Hampstead Theatre She was educated at Townley Grammar School for Girls before completing a degree in sociology at Warwick University in 1976, a masters degree in cultural studies from Birmingham University in 1977 and doctoral research at University of East ...
31 dic 2021 · Baroness Valerie Amos, 67, a Labour member of the House of Lords, will be the first black person appointed Lady Companion of the Order. Ted Hennessey. Friday 31 December 2021 22:30 GMT.
