New British High Commissioner appointed to Australia (Baroness Valerie Amos)
Posted on July 4, 2009 by by jr
The UK in Australia website (part of the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office web presence) has announced that Baroness Valerie Amos has been appointed British High Commissioner to Australia in succession to current High Commissioner Helen Liddell.
According to wikipedia:
“Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos, PC (born 13 March 1954) is a British Labour Party politician and life peer, formerly serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. When she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 12 May 2003, following the resignation of Clare Short, she became the first black woman to sit in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. She left the cabinet when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister. She was then nominated to become the European Union special representative to the African Union by Gordon Brown. However after an independent selection process, Belgian diplomat Koen Vervaeke was chosen to represent the EU in Addis Ababa.“
It is understood that Baroness Amos will take up her appointment during October 2009.
