Valerie Amos - Revision history

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 {{Template:Revolving Door badge}}[[Image:Valerie_Amos.jpg‎|right|thumb|Valerie Amos]]
-Baroness '''Valerie Amos''' (born 13 March 1954, Guyana) was the [[United Nations|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]].
+Baroness '''Valerie Amos''' (born 13 March 1954, Guyana) was the [[United Nations|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]].<ref> BBC News [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31805012 Conservative MP Stephen O'Brien gets top UN role], 9 March 2015, accessed 21 May 2015.</ref>
 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]].<ref>Fawcett Society, [http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=674 Baroness Valerie Amos], accessed 24 November 2008.</ref>

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 {{Template:Revolving Door badge}}[[Image:Valerie_Amos.jpg‎|right|thumb|Valerie Amos]]
-Baroness '''Valerie Amos''' (born 13 March 1954, Guyana) was appointed UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator in July 2010.
+Baroness '''Valerie Amos''' (born 13 March 1954, Guyana) was the [[United Nations|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]].<ref>Fawcett Society, [http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=674 Baroness Valerie Amos], accessed 24 November 2008.</ref>

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	Baroness '''Valerie Amos''' (born 13 March 1954, Guyana) was appointed UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator in July 2010.		Baroness '''Valerie Amos''' (born 13 March 1954, Guyana) was appointed UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator in July 2010.

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 ==Affiliations==
 *Non-executive director,<ref>Titanium Resources Group, [http://titaniumresources.com/media/79478/board_changes.pdf Board Changes, 10 March 2008], accessed 24 November 2008.</ref> [[Titanium Resources Group]] (http://titaniumresources.com/). Her role was approved by [[ACOBA]], who saw "no reason why she should not take it up forthwith, but she should make clear in any commercial dealings that she was acting on behalf of the company and not the UK Government."<ref name="ACOBA"/> Has since resigned from this role.
 ==Resources==

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-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."<ref name="ACOBA"> [http://acoba.independent.gov.uk/media/acoba/assets/acobaninthreport2006_08.pdf The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments Ninth Report 2006-2008] ''Advisory Committee on Business Appointments'', accessed 5 November 2014 </ref> 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.
+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:
-In the House of Lords Register of Members Interests Amos lists this directorship as remunerated.
+:'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'.<ref name="ACOBA"> [http://acoba.independent.gov.uk/media/acoba/assets/acobaninthreport2006_08.pdf The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments Ninth Report 2006-2008] ''Advisory Committee on Business Appointments'', accessed 5 November 2014 </ref>
-A spokesman for CDC insisted to the ''Daily Mail'' 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.<ref> Kirsty Walker [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1113699/Ex-minister-Baroness-Amos-lands-job-firm-given-15m-government-handout.html#ixzz1mXsS4jjO Ex-minister Baroness Amos lands job with firm given £15m government handout], Daily Mail, 13 January 2009, acc 16 February 2012 </ref><ref>Travant Capital, [http://www.travantcapital.com/travant/view/travant/en/page48 The Board], accessed 24 November 2008.</ref> (Link broken)
+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.
 ==Affiliations==

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	Baroness '''Valerie Amos''' (born 13 March 1954, Guyana) was appointed UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator in July 2010.		Baroness '''Valerie Amos''' (born 13 March 1954, Guyana) was appointed UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator in July 2010.

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 *Non-executive director,<ref>Titanium Resources Group, [http://titaniumresources.com/media/79478/board_changes.pdf Board Changes, 10 March 2008], accessed 24 November 2008.</ref> [[Titanium Resources Group]] (http://titaniumresources.com/)
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 ==Resources==