Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict

Exceptional conference by Valerie AMOS, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

 

Moderated by Ghassan SALAME, Dean of PSIA-Sciences Po

 

Valerie Ann AMOS, Baroness Amos, PC is the eighth and current UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN, she had been British High Commissioner to Australia. She was made a Labour life peer in 1997 and served as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. Ms. Amos was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 12 May 2003, following the resignation of Clare Short, and became the first black woman to sit in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. She left the Cabinet when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister. Furthermore she was nominated by Gordon Brown to become the European Union Special Representative to the African Union. In July 2010 Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon announced Baroness Amos’s appointment to the role of Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.