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Carol Bellamy has been named President and CEO of World Learning and President of its School for International Training. World Learning, based in Brattleboro, Vermont, is one of the world's first private, non-profit, international educational organizations.
This year she completed a 10 year tenure as Executive Director of UNICEF. She was originally appointed in that position by then-UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1995. Bellamy was granted a second five-year term in 2000 by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Under UN policy, agency heads may serve no more than two five-year terms. Ms. Bellamy’s successor as UNICEF Executive Director is Ann M. Veneman, who prior to joining UNICEF was the United States Secretary of Agriculture. Ms. Bellamy leaves behind a fiscally sound organization with strong internal controls. During her tenure, she doubled UNICEF's resources from roughly $800 million in 1994 to more than $1.8 billion in 2004.
Prior to leading UNICEF, Ms. Bellamy was the director of the Peace Corps from 1993 to 1995. She was the first person to has been both a volunteer for the organization and its director. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala from 1963 to 1965.
She was highly successful in business and politics. She was a Managing Director at Bear Stearns & Co. from 1990 to 1993, a Principal at Morgan Stanley from 1986 to 1990, and an associate in the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore from 1968 to 1971. In 1978 Ms. Bellamy was elected the first woman president of the New York City Council, a position she held until 1985. She had earlier served five years in the New York State Senate.
Ms. Bellamy graduated from Gettysburg College in 1963 and earned her law degree from New York University in 1968. She is a former Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and an honorary member of Phi Alpha Alpha, the U.S. National Honor Society for Accomplishment and Scholarship in Public Affairs and Administration.
She was born on 14 January 1942 and raised in the New York area. She is a Mets fan..
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At UNICEF, Bellamy has challenged world leaders to recognize their responsibility to invest in children - and to shift national resources accordingly. "In a global economy worth over $30 trillion, it is clear that the necessary resources and know-how to reach every child are well within our grasp," Bellamy told a gathering in Stockholm in 2002.
External links *World Learning
*Peace Corps biography
*Carol Bellamy UNICEF Biography
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*UNICEF Executive Board links relating to Carol Bellamy
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*Photo Essays relating to Carol Bellamy
*SIT press release announcing new president
*Guide to Carol Bellamy Papers 1977-1985, New York University Fales Library
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