Valerie Amos Biography

The eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator was Valerie Ann Amos Baroness Amos PC. She had served as the British High Commissioner to Australia before being appointed to the UN. She has created a Labor Life Peer in 1997 and later became Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords. Amos became the first black woman to serve in the British Cabinet when she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on May 12, 2003, replacing Clare Short, who resigned. When Gordon Brown was elected prime minister, she resigned from the cabinet. PM Brown subsequently chose her to serve as the Special Representative of the European Union to the African Union. The appointment of Baroness Amos to the position of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, Coordinator, was announced by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in July 2010. She began working on the situation on September 1st, 2010 and continued until May 29th, 2015. 

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