Henrietta H. Fore
Henrietta Fore | |
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![]() Henrietta H. Fore | |
Executive Director of UNICEF | |
In office January 1, 2018 – January 31, 2022 | |
Secretary General | António Guterres |
Preceded by | Tony Lake |
Succeeded by | Catherine M. Russell |
Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development | |
In office November 17, 2007 – January 20, 2009 | |
President | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Randall Tobias |
Succeeded by | Raj Shah |
Under Secretary of State for Management | |
In office August 2, 2005 – November 17, 2007 | |
President | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Grant Green |
Succeeded by | Patrick Kennedy |
37th Director of the United States Mint | |
In office August 2001 – August 2, 2005 | |
President | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Jay Johnson |
Succeeded by | Edmund Moy |
Personal details | |
Born | December 9, 1948 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Education | Wellesley College (BA) University of Northern Colorado (MPP) |
Henrietta Holsman Fore (born December 9, 1948) is an American public health and international development executive who served as the 7th executive director of UNICEF till January 2022.[1] Fore currently serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Holsman International, a manufacturing and investment company. She served in three presidential appointments under President George W. Bush: Fore was the first woman Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance, the 11th Under Secretary of Management in the Department of State, and the 37th Director of the United States Mint in the U.S. Department of Treasury.[2] She was the presidential appointee for President George H. W. Bush at the United States Agency for International Development.
Early life and education
Fore was born in Chicago, Illinois.[3] Her mother was from Switzerland. Her father served the military during World War I.[4] Her grandfather is turn of the century architect Henry K. Holsman, inventor of the Holsman Automobile (1902-1911).[5][6]
Fore grew up in Santa Barbara, California and attended Crane Country Day School[7] and Cold Springs School. She attended the Graham-Eckes School in Palm Beach, Florida, and graduated in 1966 from The Baldwin School, a private girls boarding school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
In 1970, Fore received a B.A. in history, economics, and art from Wellesley College.[4] In 1975, she received a M.S. in public administration from the University of Northern Colorado.[8] In 1986, she studied international politics at the University of Oxford.
Career
After college, Fore worked in the federal government. She then worked at one of her father's companies, a small manufacturing business in the steel industry, a position she held for 12 years.[4] From 1977 to 1989, she was president and director of Stockton Wire Products in Burbank, California. From 1981 to 1989, she was president and the chairman of the board of Pozacorp, Inc. in Burbank, California.[9]
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From 2001 to 2005, Fore served as the 37th Director of the United States Mint in the U.S. Department of Treasury, serving Secretary of Treasury, Paul H. O'Neill and Secretary of Treasury John W. Snow.[10]
From 2005 to 2007, Fore served as Under Secretary of State for Management, the Chief Operating Officer for the United States Department of State, serving Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.[11]
From May 2007 to January 2009, Fore served as the 13th Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),[9] and Director of United States Foreign Assistance, holding the equivalent rank as Deputy Secretary of State.
In January 2018, Fore was appointed as the executive director of UNICEF by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres.[12] As part of this position, Fore has worked in collaboration with GAVI, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and the World Health Organization, among others, to facilitate vaccination to combat the COVID-19 global pandemic.[4]
Fore resigned in July 2021 to attend to her husband’s serious health issue but offered to stay on until her successor was recruited.[13] Her successor, Catherine M. Russell, assumed office on February 1, 2022.[14]
Personal life
Fore lives in Nevada with her husband Richard L. Fore, who has four children.[4] She has one sister, Marta Babson.[5][6] Fore is a Republican.[15]
Selected honors
- 2022:
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun[16]
- 2020: U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Leadership Award[17]
- 2013: CRDF Global’s George Brown Award for International Scientific Cooperation[18]
- 2009: United States Secretary of State, Distinguished Service Award[19]
- 2005: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton Award[20]
- 1997: State of the World Forum, Women Redefining Leadership Award[21]
Selected leadership and memberships
- 1977-2017, 2022-present: Stockton Products, Chairman[9]
- 1981-1989: Pozacorp, Inc., Chairman of the Board[9]
- 1987: Stanford Graduate School of Business, Board Governance
- 1987-1989: Water Quality Management, Board Member[9]
- 1993-2017: Asia Society, Co-chair, Global Board of Directors[22]
- 1993-2017: The Aspen Institute, Board Trustee[23]
- 1993-2017: Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), Board Member[24]
- 1993-2017, 2022-present: Holsman International, Chairman and CEO
- 1995-2017, 2022-present: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Board Trustee[23]
- 2007-2009: Millennium Challenge Corporation, Board Member[25]
- 2007-2009: Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Board Member[26]
- 2009-2017, 2022-present: Seaward International Company, Chairman and CEO
- 2009-2015: WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation (New York), Co-chair[19]
- 2010-2017: Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board (CED), Member Board of Trustees
- 2010-2017: Thervance Biopharma US, Inc., Independent Director, Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee[19]
- 2011-2017: Center for Global Development, Board Member
- 2012-2017: ExxonMobil, Independent Director, Audit Committee and Finance Committee[19]
- 2014-2017: Initiative for Global Development, Board Member
- 2014-2017: General Mills, Independent Director, Governance Committee and Public Responsibility Committee
- 2015-2017: Middle East Investment Initiative, Chair of the Board of Directors
- 2016-2017: Essilor International S.A., Independent Director, Executive Officers and Remuneration Committee and Strategic Committee
- 2018-2022: Global Leadership Council Generation Unlimited, Co-Chair[27]
- 2018-2022: Chief Executives Board of the United Nations, NY Secretariat for the U.N. Secretary-General
- 2018-2021: End Violence Against Children, Chair of the Board[28]
- 2020-present: World Bank and WHO, Global Pandemic Monitoring Board[29]
- American Academy of Diplomacy, Member
- American Leadership for a WaterSecure World Campaign Cabinet, Member
- Chief Executives Organization, Member
- Committee of 200, Member
- Council on Foreign Relations, Member
- Economic Club of New York, Member
- International Women's Forum, Member
- Wellesley College Business Leadership Council, Member
- YPO/WPO, Member
Selected works and publications
- Ghebreyesus, Tedros Adhanom; Fore, Henrietta; Birtanov, Yelzhan; Jakab, Zsuzsanna (October 2018). "Primary health care for the 21st century, universal health coverage, and the Sustainable Development Goals". The Lancet. 392 (10156): 1371–1372. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32556-X. PMID 30343843.
Wikidata ()
- Berkley, Seth; Fore, Henrietta (26 April 2019). "Health for all". Science. 364 (6438): 309. Bibcode:2019Sci...364..309B. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.AAX7591. PMID 31023899.
Wikidata ()
- Fore, Henrietta H (July 2020). "A wake-up call: COVID-19 and its impact on children's health and wellbeing". The Lancet Global Health. 8 (7): e861–e862. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30238-2. PMC 7217644. PMID 2405458.
Wikidata ()
- Fore, Henrietta H; Dongyu, Qu; Beasley, David M; Ghebreyesus, Tedros A (August 2020). "Child malnutrition and COVID-19: the time to act is now". The Lancet. 396 (10250): 517–518. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31648-2. PMC 7384790. PMID 32730742.
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References
- ^ "UNICEF chief Henrietta Fore resigns 'with a heavy heart'". UN News. 2021-07-13. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ Stevenson, Richard W. (2001-08-04). "Treasury Nominees Confirmed After Trade Protest by Helms". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 1991.
- ^ a b c d e Baumberger Crane, Barbara (2020). "Interview with Henrietta Holsman Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF" (PDF). Wellesley Magazine.
- ^ a b "UNHAPPY WITH EARLY AUTOS, ARCHITECT DESIGNED HIS OWN". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ a b "A Glimpse Inside Our Pebble Beach Experience – Holsman Automobile". holsmanautomobiles.com. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ Noozhawk. "Crane School Honors UNICEF Leader Henrietta Holsman Fore". www.noozhawk.com. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "Henrietta H. Fore". www.unicef.org. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
- ^ a b c d e "Nomination of Henrietta H. Fore To Be an Assistant Administrator at the Agency for International Development". George H.W. Bush Library & Museum. 3 October 1991.
- ^ "Henrietta Holsman Fore Sworn in as Director of U.S. Mint". usmint.gov. United States Mint. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Henrietta H. Fore biography". unicef.org. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Henrietta Fore becomes new UNICEF Executive Director". Unicef.org. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
- ^ "Message from UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore to staff". Retrieved 2022-02-01.
- ^ "UNICEF welcomes announcement of next Executive Director". www.unicef.org. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "Henrietta Holsman Fore". www.nndb.com. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "令和4年秋の外国人叙勲 受章者名簿" (PDF). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
- ^ "Dr. Anthony Fauci, WFP's David Beasley, UNICEF's Henrietta Fore Honored for Unwavering Commitment to U.S. Global Leadership on World AIDS Day". USGLC. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "Inaugural CRDF Global Henrietta H. Fore Women in Science Fellowship to Advance Science Collaboration". www.newswise.com. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ a b c d "Henrietta Fore". academyofdiplomacy.org. The American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD). Retrieved 1 October 2019.
- ^ NMN. "Fore given Hamilton Award". Numismatic News. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "HENRIETTA HOLSMAN FORE SWORN IN AS DIRECTOR OF U.S. MINT". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "Co-Chairs and Trustees". Asiasociety.org. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Henrietta Fore". Ted.com. Ted Conference, LLC. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
- ^ "Henrietta H. Fore". unicef.org. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
- ^ "Board: Board of Directors". Millennium Challenge Corporation. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "Henrietta Fore". Varkey Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "USAID is foreign policy's best value". POLITICO. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "Henriette H. Fore to serve as board chair of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children | End Violence". End Violence Against Children. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "GPMB". www.gpmb.org. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
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