Valerie Amos
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About
Politician who was appointed the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator in 2010. She previously worked as the British High Commissioner to Australia.
Before Fame
She obtained a degree in Sociology from the University of Warwick in 1976.
Trivia
When she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development in Britain in 2003 she became the first black woman to sit in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
Family Life
She has never married and has no children.
Associated With
She was appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom by Tony Blair in 2003.