Valerie Amos

Valerie Amos     (politician)
Born	Valerie Ann Amos 13 March 1954 Georgetown, British Guiana
Alma mater	University of Birmingham, University of Warwick, University of East Anglia
Religion	Christian
Member of	European Council on Foreign Relations
Party	Labour
British Labour politician  Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator In office 1 September 2010 - 29 May 2015  UK/High Commissioner/Australia  In office 1 October 2009 - 1 September 2010  Leader of the House of Lords  In office 6 October 2003 - 27 June 2007 Succeeded by Catherine Ashton  Lord President of the Council In office 6 October 2003 - 27 June 2007 Succeeded by Catherine Ashton  Secretary of State for International Development In office 12 May 2003 - 6 October 2003 Preceded by Clare Short Succeeded by Hilary Benn  Member of the House of Lords  In office 24 September 1997 - 26 May 2010

Baroness Valerie Amos was the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from July 2010 to 2015. She was succeeded by former Conservative Party MP Stephen O'Brien.

She is a Labour life peer and was the first black woman to enter Cabinet in 2003 and preside as Leader of the House of Lords.

Early life

Amos was born in 1954 in British Guiana (now Guyana) in South America and, after moving with her family to Great Britain in 1963, she attended Bexley Technical High School for Girls (now Townley Grammar School), Bexleyheath, where she was the first black deputy head girl. She completed a degree in Sociology at the University of Warwick (1973–76), and also later took courses in cultural studies at the University of Birmingham and the University of East Anglia.

Charity career

After working in Equal Opportunities, Training and Management Services in local government in the London boroughs of Lambeth, Camden and Hackney, Amos became Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission in 1989, leaving the position in 1994.

In 1995, Amos co-founded the consultancy firm Amos Fraser Bernard and was an adviser to the South African government on public service reform, human rights and employment equity.

Amos has also been Deputy Chair of the Runnymede Trust (1990–98), a Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research, a non-executive Director of the University College London Hospitals Trust, a Trustee of Voluntary Service Overseas, Chair of the Afiya Trust, Member of the board of the Sierra Leone Titanium Resources Group, a director of Hampstead Theatre and chair of the Board of Governors of the Royal College of Nursing Institute.

Political Career

From 1998 to 2001 Baroness Amos was appointed a Government Whip in the House of Lords. She was also the International Development Spokesperson from 1998 to 2007 and the Minister of State for Africa from 2001 to 2003. In 2003 she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development. Between 2003-2007 Baroness Amos became leader of the House of Lords and Lord President to the Privy Council.

Revolving door

Amos became a non-executive director of Nigerian private equity firm Travant Capital shortly after she resigned from the Cabinet in 2007. ACOBA approved this role subject to:

'12 months after leaving office, she should not be personally involved in lobbying the Government on behalf of her new employer or its clients and she should make clear in any commercial dealings that she was acting on behalf of the company and not the UK Government'.

Questions were raised over the potential conflict of interest of her appointment shortly after Travant had received £15 million from the government-run company CDC, which is owned by the department she used to run, the Department for International Development (Dfid). CDC uses private equity funds to plough public money into poorer countries, mainly in Africa and Asia. More than a third of Travant's first equity fund came from the DfID through CDC when it was first launched in 2007.

In the House of Lords Register of Members Interests Amos lists this directorship as remunerated.

The Daily Mail reported that a spokesman for CDC insisted that the decision to invest in Travant was taken on a 'commercial basis'. He added that the company was not informed of Baroness's directorship before deciding to invest.

 

A Document by Valerie Amos

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19	open letter	14 May 2020	"COVID-19/Vaccine"	A number of deep state operatives, including 14 Bilderbergers, calling for the creation of infrastructure to rapidly jab everyone in the world.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013	23 January 2013	27 January 2013	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014	22 January 2014	25 January 2014	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2015	21 January 2015	24 January 2015	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by a lot of people. This page lists only the 261 "Public Figures".

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