Carol Bellamy

Carol Bellamy (born January 14, 1942) is the chair of the Board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF). She was Director of the Peace Corps, executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and President and CEO of World Learning.

After three terms in the New York State Senate, she was the first woman to be elected as President of the New York City Council, a position she held until her unsuccessful bid for Mayor of New York in 1985. She was the second to last person to hold this position.Klein, Joe. "The Woman Who Would Be Mayor", New York, March 8, 1982. Accessed August 10, 2011. "She grew up in a Protestant, Republican, working-class family in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Her parents worked – her mother as a nurse, her father for the phone company."

In Japan, she was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun in 2006.Nagashima-Hayashi, Michiko.  "Former UNICEF Executive Director receives humanitarian award in Japan,"  UNICEF web site (2006)]

References

Other websites
 The Fales Library Guide to the Carol Bellamy Papers 

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