Honorific-prefix	The Right Honourable
Name	The Baroness Amos
Honorific-suffix	PC
Office	Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
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1namedata	Ban Ki-moon
Term start	1 September 2010
Predecessor	John Holmes
Office2	British High Commissioner to Australia
Monarch2	Elizabeth II
Term start2	1 October 2009
Term end2	1 September 2010
Predecessor2	Helen Liddell
Successor2	Paul Madden
Office3	Leader of the House of LordsLord President of the Council
Primeminister3	Tony Blair
Term start3	6 October 2003
Term end3	27 June 2007
Predecessor3	The Lord Williams of Mostyn
Successor3	The Baroness Ashton of Upholland
Office4	Secretary of State for International Development
Primeminister4	Tony Blair
Term start4	12 May 2003
Term end4	6 October 2003
Predecessor4	Clare Short
Successor4	Hilary Benn
Birth date	March 13, 1954
Birth place	Georgetown, British Guiana
Party	Labour
Alma mater	University of BirminghamUniversity of WarwickUniversity of East Anglia
Religion	Christianity }}

Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos, PC (born 13 March 1954) is the eighth and current UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN, she had been British High Commissioner to Australia. She was made a Labour life peer in 1997 and served as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. When Amos 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. In July 2010 Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon announced Baroness Amos' appointment to the role of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Early life

Amos was born in British Guiana (now Guyana), and attended Bexley Technical High School for Girls (now Townley Grammar School for Girls), Townley Road, Bexleyheath, where she was the first black deputy Head Girl. She then studied at the University of Warwick, the University of Birmingham and the University of East Anglia, and was awarded an Honorary Professorship at Thames Valley University in 1995 in recognition of her work on equality and social justice. She was also awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws from the University of Warwick in 2000 and the University of Leicester in 2006.

Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission

After working in Equal Opportunities, Training and Management Services in local government in the London boroughs of Lambeth, Camden and Hackney, Amos became Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission 1989–94.

In 1995 Amos co-founded Amos Fraser Bernard and was an adviser to the South African Government on public service reform, human rights and employment equity.

Other positions

Amos has also been Deputy Chair of the Runnymede Trust from 1990–98, a Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research, a non-executive Director of the University College London Hospitals Trust, a Trustee of Voluntary Services Overseas, Chair of the Afiya Trust, a director of Hampstead Theatre and Chair of the Board of Governors of the Royal College of Nursing Institute.

House of Lords

Amos was created a life peer in August 1997 as Baroness Amos, of Brondesbury in the London Borough of Brent. In the House of Lords she was a co-opted member of the Select Committee on European Communities Sub-Committee F (Social Affairs, Education and Home Affairs) 1997-98.

Leader of the House of Lords

Baroness Amos was made Leader of the House of Lords on 6 October 2003 following the death of Lord Williams of Mostyn, which meant that her tenure as Secretary of State for International Development lasted less than six months. Prior to her appointment as Secretary of State for International Development, Baroness Amos was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs on 11 June 2001, with responsibility for Africa; Commonwealth; Caribbean; Overseas Territories; Consular Issues and FCO Personnel.

Baroness Amos was the principal spokesperson in the House of Lords on International Development as well as one of the Government's spokespersons in the House of Lords on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. She was previously a Government Whip in the House of Lords from 1998 to 2001 and also a spokesperson on Social Security, International Development and Women's Issues.

On 17 February 2005, the British government nominated Baroness Amos to head the United Nations Development Programme.

Non-governmental roles

Baroness Amos left the cabinet when Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister from Tony Blair in June 2007. Gordon Brown proposed her as the European Union special representative to the African Union, but this job went to Belgian career diplomat Koen Vervaeke instead. She was a member of the Committee on Commonwealth Membership, which presented its report on potential changes in membership criteria for the Commonwealth of Nations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2007 in Kampala, Uganda.

On 8 October 2008 it was reported that Baroness Amos was to join the Football Association's management board for England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. This was described as a "surprise appointment", since she has no recorded interest in football (despite her interest in cricket) or any experience in similar work such as the 2012 Olympics bid.

On 4 July 2009 it was advised that Baroness Amos had been appointed British High Commissioner to Australia in succession to High Commissioner Helen Liddell. The Baroness took up the position in October 2009.

Honours

On 1 July 2010, Amos received an honorary Doctorate of the University from the University of Stirling in recognition of her "outstanding service to our society and her role as a model of leadership and success for women today." At the University of Birmingham Guild of Students (where the Baroness studied), one of the committee rooms, The Amos Room, is named after her for her services to society.

Personal life

Amos is an enthusiast of cricket and talked about her love of the game with Jonathan Agnew on ''Test Match Special'' during the lunch break of the first day of the England v New Zealand test at Old Trafford in May 2008.

After resigning from the cabinet, Baroness Amos took up a directorship with Travant Capital, a Nigerian private equity fund launched in 2007. In the House of Lords Register of Members Interests she lists this directorship as remunerated. At launch over one third of Travant’s first equity fund came from CDC (a government-owned plc). CDC's investment decisions are taken completely independently of external influences (including its shareholder) and the decision to invest in Travant by CDC was taken before Baroness Amos was appointed to the board of Travant.

Baroness Amos has never married and has no children.

References

External links

Biography at UNOCHA

Interview with Baroness Amos by Graham Brown-Martin, Trace Magazine

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Honorific-prefix	The Right Honourable
Name	Helen Clark
Honorific-suffix	ONZ SSI
Office	Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
1blankname
1namedata	Ban Ki-Moon
Term start	17 April 2009
Predecessor	Kemal Derviş
Office2	37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
Monarch2	Elizabeth II
Governor-general2	Michael Hardie BoysSilvia CartwrightAnand Satyanand
Deputy2	Jim AndertonMichael Cullen
Term start2	5 December 1999
Term end2	19 November 2008
Predecessor2	Jenny Shipley
Successor2	John Key
Office3	27th Leader of the Opposition
Deputy3	Michael Cullen
Term start3	1 December 1993
Term end3	5 December 1999
Predecessor3	Mike Moore
Successor3	Jenny Shipley
Office4	11th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
Primeminister4	Geoffrey PalmerMike Moore
Term start4	8 August 1989
Term end4	2 November 1990
Predecessor4	Geoffrey Palmer
Successor4	Don McKinnon
Office5	29th Minister of Health
Primeminister5	David LangeGeoffrey PalmerMike Moore
Term start5	30 January 1989
Term end5	2 November 1990
Predecessor5	David Caygill
Successor5	Simon Upton
Constituency mp6	Mount Albert
Term start6	28 November 1981
Term end6	17 April 2009
Parliament6	New Zealand
Predecessor6	Warren Freer
Successor6	David Shearer
Majority6	14,749
Birth date	February 26, 1950
Birth place	Hamilton, New Zealand
Signature	Signature Helen Clark.jpg
Party	Labour Party
Spouse	Peter Davis
Alma mater	University of Auckland
Religion	Agnosticism }}

Helen Elizabeth Clark, ONZ (born 26 February 1950) is the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, the third-highest UN position, and was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand for three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008. To date she is the fifth longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand. She led the Labour Party from 1993 until it lost the 2008 general election. Before resigning from Parliament in April 2009, Clark was Labour's foreign affairs spokeswoman and MP for the Mount Albert electorate which she had held since 1981. ''Forbes'' magazine ranked her 20th most powerful woman in the world in 2006.

Early life

Clark was the eldest of four daughters of a farming family at Te Pahu in the Waikato Region. Her mother, Margaret McMurray, of Irish birth, was a primary school teacher. Her father, George, was a farmer. Clark studied at Te Pahu Primary School, at Epsom Girls' Grammar School in Auckland and at the University of Auckland, where she majored in politics and graduated with an MA (Honours) in 1974. Her thesis focused on rural political behaviour and representation.

As a teenager Clark became politically active, protesting against the Vietnam War and campaigning against foreign military bases in New Zealand. She has declared herself agnostic.

In 1971 Clark assisted Labour candidates to the Auckland City Council. Clark was a junior lecturer in political studies at the University of Auckland from 1973 to 1975. In 1974 she sought the nomination for the Auckland Central electorate, but lost to Richard Prebble. She instead stood for the Piako, a National safe seat. Clark studied abroad on a University Grants Committee post-graduate scholarship in 1976, and then lectured in political studies at Auckland again while undertaking her PhD (which she never completed) from 1977 until her election to Parliament in 1981 (her father supported the National Party that election).

She married sociologist Peter Davis, her partner of five years at that time, shortly before that election (under pressure from some members of the New Zealand Labour Party to marry despite her own feelings about marriage her biography reports that she cried throughout the ceremony, although she attributes that to a headache). Dr Davis is a professor in medical sociology and heads the Sociology Department at the University of Auckland.

Clark has worked actively in the New Zealand Labour Party for most of her life. She served as a member of the Party's New Zealand executive from 1978 until September 1988 and again from April 1989. She chaired the University of Auckland Princes Street branch of the Labour Party during her studies, becoming active alongside future Labour Party politicians including Richard Prebble, David Caygill, Margaret Wilson, and Richard Northey. Clark held the positions of president of the Labour Youth Council, executive member of the Party's Auckland Regional Council, secretary of the Labour Women's Council and member of the Policy Council.

She represented the New Zealand Labour Party at the congresses of the Socialist International and of the Socialist International Women in 1976, 1978, 1983 and 1986, at an Asia-Pacific Socialist Organisation Conference held in Sydney in 1981, and at the Socialist International Party Leaders' Meeting in Sydney in 1991.

Member of Parliament

Helen Clark first gained election to the New Zealand House of Representatives in the 1981 general election as one of four women who entered Parliament on that occasion. In winning the Mount Albert electorate in Auckland, she became the second woman elected to represent an Auckland electorate, and the seventeenth woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. At the 2005 general election Clark won 66% of the electorate votes, or 20,918 votes with a 14,749 majority. During her first term in the House (1981–1984), she became a member of the Statutes Revision Committee. In her second term (1984–1987), she chaired the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Select Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control, both of which combined with the Defence Select Committee in 1985 to form a single committee.

Cabinet Minister

In 1987, Clark became a Cabinet Minister in the Fourth Labour Government, led by David Lange (1984–1989), Geoffrey Palmer (1989–1990) and Mike Moore (1990), first as Minister of Housing and as Minister of Conservation, then as Minister of Health and later as Deputy Prime Minister.

Clark served as Minister of Conservation from August 1987 until January 1989 and as Minister of Housing from August 1987 until August 1989. She became Minister of Health in January 1989 and Minister of Labour and Deputy Prime Minister in August 1989. She chaired the Cabinet Social Equity Committee and became a member of the Cabinet Policy Committee, of the Cabinet Committee on Chief Executives, of the Cabinet Economic Development and Employment Committee, of the Cabinet Expenditure Review Committee, of the Cabinet State Agencies Committee, of the Cabinet Honours Appointments and Travel Committee and of the Cabinet Domestic and External Security Committee.

Leader of the Opposition

From October 1990 until December 1993 Clark held the posts of Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Opposition spokesperson for Health and Labour and member of the Social Services Select Committee and of the Labour Select Committee. After the National Party won the 1993 general election with a majority of one seat, Clark challenged Mike Moore for the leadership of the parliamentary Labour Party and became Leader of the Opposition on 1 December 1993. She led the Opposition during the National-led Governments of Jim Bolger (1990–1997) and Jenny Shipley (1997–1999).

Prime minister

When the New Zealand Labour Party came into office as part of a coalition following the 1999 election, Clark became the second female Prime Minister of New Zealand and the first to have won office at an election. (The previous Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley took office as the result of a mid-term party-leadership challenge.) During her term in office women held a number of prominent elected and appointed offices in New Zealand, such as the Governor-General, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chief Justice.

Clark was Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage from 1999 until 2008. She also had ministerial responsibility for the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service and for Ministerial Services. Her particular interests included social policy and international affairs.

As Prime Minister, Helen Clark was a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an International network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilise the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development.

As Leader of the Labour Party, Clark negotiated the formation of successive minority coalition governments. Even though some commentators saw stable government within the relatively new MMP electoral system as unlikely, Clark's supporters credit her with maintaining three terms of stable MMP government.

First term

The first such coalition (1999–2002) linked the Labour Party with the Alliance Party (1999).

In 2000, Labour MP Chris Carter investigated the background of one of Clark's Cabinet colleagues, Māori Affairs Minister Dover Samuels. During the investigation, Clark referred to John Yelash as a murderer. However, the court system had convicted Yelash of manslaughter. Yelash sued Clark for defamation, resulting in an out-of-court settlement.

In 2000, the then Police Commissioner, Peter Doone, resigned after the ''Sunday Star-Times'' alleged he had prevented the breath testing of his partner Robyn, who had driven the car they occupied, by telling the officer "that won't be necessary". Both Doone and the officer involved denied this happened. Doone sued the ''Sunday Star-Times'' for defamation in 2005 but the paper revealed they had checked the story with Clark. She confirmed this, but denied that she had made attempts to get Doone to resign and defended being the source as "by definition I cannot leak". Helen Clark also responded by saying that National's friends had funded Mr Doone's defamation-suit. Opinion on the significance of this incident varied.

In a report in the ''People's Daily'', Chinese President Jiang Zemin referred to Clark as an "old friend". He hoped to "establish bilateral long-term and stable overall cooperative relations with a healthy development geared to the 21st century", and "broad prospects for bilateral economic cooperation". Clark had strongly supported China's entry into the WTO.

Clark signed a painting for a charity-auction that someone else had painted. A political controversy arose about it, and after it emerged that she had not painted it, Opposition politicians referred the matter to the New Zealand Police. The Police found evidence for a ''prima facie'' case of forgery, but determined that it was not in the public interest to prosecute. A staff member bought the painting back and destroyed it.

In 1999, Clark was involved in a defamation case in the High Court of New Zealand with Auckland orthopaedic surgeon Joe Brownlee, resulting in Clark making an unreserved apology. The case centered on a press statement issued by Clark criticising Brownlee, triggered by a constituent's complaint over the outcome of a hip replacement. Clark admitted the criticism was unjustified in that the complication suffered by her constituent was rare, unforeseen and unavoidable.

Second term

The Alliance Party split in 2002 over the Government's commitment of New Zealand troops to the War in Afghanistan, leading to the imminent dissolution of Labour's coalition of that party. As a consequence, Clark called an early election and then went into coalition with Jim Anderton's Progressive Party, a spin-off of the Alliance Party (2002, with parliamentary confidence and supply coming from United Future and a "good-faith" agreement with the Green Party).

}} Clark believes a New Zealand republic is "inevitable", and her term in office saw a number of alleged moves in this direction, under her government's policy of building national identity. Examples include the abolition of appeals to the Privy Council in London and the foundation of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the abolition of titular Knighthood and Damehood honours (restored in 2009), and the abolition of the title "Queen's Counsel" (replaced by "Senior Counsel").

In 2002, Clark took an unprecedented step and said sorry for New Zealand's treatment of Samoa during the colonial era. Clark's apology was made in Apia during the 40th anniversary of Samoa's independence and televised live to New Zealand where Samoans applauded the prime minister's gesture.

In March 2003, referring to the U.S. led coalition's actions in the Iraq War, Clark told the newspaper ''Sunday Star Times'' that, "I don't think that 11 September under a Gore presidency would have had this consequence for Iraq." She later sent a letter to Washington apologising for any offence that her comment may have caused.

On 17 July 2004, a motorcade involving police, Diplomatic Protection Squad, and Ministerial Services staff reached speeds of up to 172 km/h when taking Clark and Cabinet Minister Jim Sutton from Waimate to Christchurch Airport so she could attend a rugby union match in Wellington. The courts subsequently convicted the drivers involved for driving offences, but appeals resulted in the quashing of these convictions in December 2005 and August 2006. Clark said that she was busy working in the back seat and had no influence or role in the decision to speed and did not realise the speed of her vehicle.

Third term

In 2005, following the election of that year, the Labour Party and the Progressive Party renewed their coalition, gaining supply-and-confidence support from both New Zealand First and United Future in exchange for giving the leaders of those parties ministerial positions outside Cabinet.

On 24 July 2008, Clark passed Sir Robert Muldoon to become New Zealand's sixth-longest-serving Prime Minister, and on 27 October 2008 she passed Edward Stafford's combined terms to become the 5th longest-serving Prime Minister.

On 8 February 2008, Clark became the longest serving leader of the Labour Party in its history (although some dispute exists over when Harry Holland became leader), having served for 14 years, 69 days, by 26 October 2008 she had passed Holland's longest possible term and her position as longest serving Labour Party leader was put beyond doubt. Clark conceded defeat following the 2008 general election to John Key and announced that she was standing down as Labour Party leader. On 11 November 2008 Clark was replaced by Phil Goff as leader of the Labour Party.

In 2006, Forbes ranked Clark 20th of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" and then at 56th in 2008.

United Nations Development Programme

Helen Clark became the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme on 17 April 2009, and is the first woman to lead the organization. She is also the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on development issues. The current government of New Zealand strongly supported her nomination, along with Australia, the Pacific Island nations and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown. She also received the support of the five countries on the UNDP board (Iran, Haiti, Serbia, The Netherlands and Tanzania) and was unanimously confirmed by the General Assembly on 31 March. She was officially sworn in by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 27 April 2009.

In this position, ''Forbes'' deemed her the 61st most powerful woman in the world.

Honours

The government of the Solomon Islands awarded Clark (together with John Howard) the Star of the Solomon Islands in 2005 in recognition of New Zealand's role in restoring law and order in the Solomon Islands. This award allows her to use the post-nominal letters "SSI".

}} In January 2008 Clark won the United Nations Environment Programme Champions of the Earth award in recognition of the government’s promotion of sustainability initiatives.

Clark is an Honorary Member of The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.

Clark was the patron of the New Zealand Rugby League between 2002 and 2011 and has served as the patron of the Mt Albert Lions rugby league club for over 20 years.

In January 2009, two months after losing office, Clark was voted Greatest Living New Zealander in an opt-in website poll run by the ''New Zealand Herald''. In a close race she received 25 percent of the vote, ahead of Victoria Cross recipient Willie Apiata at 21 percent. Current Prime Minister John Key said he was not surprised by the poll, saying "... she is well thought of as a New Zealand Prime Minister."

In April 2009 she was awarded honorary Doctor of Laws degree by University of Auckland.

She was awarded New Zealand's top honour, the Order of New Zealand, in 2009.

In popular culture

A satirical book, later adapted as a play, titled ''On the conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her young lover'' was published in 2005. Clark has also guest-starred on ''bro'Town'', the New Zealand animated television series.

See also

Politics of New Zealand

New Zealand

List of Nuclear-Free Future Award recipients

Notes

References

Further reading

:''This is a book intended for children.'' :''A paper by John Henderson and Seishi Gomibuchi is entitled:'' "The leadership styles of Helen Clark and Don Brash." :''Helen Clark is profiled in a chapter entitled:'' " Helen Clark: first elected woman prime minister."

External links

Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator

Brief biography on the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage's "History online" website

Political offices

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name	Monique Coleman
background	solo_singer
birth name	Adrienne Monique Coleman
born	November 13, 1980Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States
occupation	Actress, singer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, dancer
genres	Pop, R&B;
years active	1995–present
associated acts	Corbin Bleu, Drew Seeley, Zac Efron Ashley Tisdale
website	http://www.gimmemo.com }}

Adrienne Monique Coleman (born November 13, 1980) is an American actress, singer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known for her co-starring role in Disney's ''High School Musical'' movies, in which she plays Taylor McKessie. Coleman also had a recurring role on ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody'', as a school girl named Mary-Margaret. She also competed in the third edition of ABC's ''Dancing with the Stars'', finishing in fourth place. Most recent, Coleman was named the first ever UN Youth Champion for the International Year of Youth and is currently on a world tour to raise awareness of challenges facing youth. Coleman launched her online talk show Gimme Mo', a show dedicated to empowering today's youth on September 8, 2010.

Career

Coleman made her first lead in the independent feature entitled ''Mother of the River'' which was shot in the historic Charleston, South Carolina. The film won numerous awards at film festivals in Chicago. Two years later, Coleman appeared as Young Donna in The Family Channel Movie ''The Ditch digger's Daughters'' for which she was nominated for a Young Artists Award of Hollywood. During her sophomore year of high school, Coleman wrote, directed, produced, and starred in her own one-person play entitled "Voices from Within" with standing room only - audience numbering in the hundreds. On stage in Chicago, Coleman starred in productions of ''Noises Off'', ''Polaroid Stories'', ''The Real Thing'' and ''The Colored Museum''.

In 2005, Coleman had the honor of working opposite one of her heroes - the legendary James Earl Jones when she played Leesha in the 2005 Hallmark TV Movie ''The Reading Room''. She received a 2006 Camie Award for the role and represented the film at the NAACP Image Awards.

In 2006, Coleman rose to prominence in High School Musical, where she portrayed Taylor McKessie, the best friend of the new girl, Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens). Before then, she was a recurring guest star in ''The Suite Life of Zack and Cody'' episodes, "Forever Plaid", "Not So Suite 16", "Neither a Borrower Nor a Speller Bee" and "A Prom Story" along with Hudgens. Coleman has had seven other guest appearances on television including, ''Boston Public'', ''Gilmore Girls'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', ''Strong Medicine'', ''10-8: Officers on Duty'', ''Married to the Kellys'', and ''Veronica Mars''. Coleman was also in the first ever ''Disney Channel Games'' in 2006, on the Blue Team (with Brenda Song, Corbin Bleu, Cole Sprouse, Vanessa Hudgens, and Jason Earles and Brandon Baker). She won with both teams.

Coleman appeared on ''Tour with High School Musical: The Concert.'' She showcased her ballroom skills in "Dance With Me", while she partnered with National Youth Latin Champion Jared Murillo. Drew Seeley was the soloist. She is the host of ''3 Minute Game Show: High School Musical Edition'' on Disney Channel. She recorded a song called "Christmas Vacation" for the holiday album entitled ''A Disney Channel Holiday.'' In 2007, she appeared in ''High School Musical 2'' and voiced the Winx Club character Layla/Aisha in the live-action film ''Secret of the Lost Kingdom''. In 2008, she again repeated her role as Taylor McKessie in ''High School Musical 3''.

In an interview, Coleman has stated that she would like to portray Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes in a biopic based on the lives of girl group TLC. She will play a depressed femme fatale, Chelsea Park, in a indie film called ''Crush,'' which takes place in the 1920s. She will also have a main role in the 2010 romance-comedy film ''Promise Rings''. She was offered a role in another independent film, entitled ''Sleep Away'', but turned it down because she was told there would be a nude scene her character would have to take part of. Coleman voiced the character Fontasia on the Fox animated series ''The Cleveland Show'', starring Sanaa Lathan and Nia Long. She also made a guest appearance on the TV series ''Bones''.

''Dancing with the Stars''

Coleman competed in the Fall 2006 third edition of ABC's ''Dancing with the Stars'' reality dance competition. She was paired with professional partner Louis van Amstel throughout the competition. van Amstel and the judges praised her for "taking risks" during the competition. The pair appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show before they were eliminated and performed the same dance they performed in week 2's episode. She was eliminated from Dancing With The Stars on November 1, 2006, finishing fourth in the competition. She was the last female in the contest that year. Coleman was very gracious in defeat, and appeared on the ''Jimmy Kimmel Live'' show on the same night as the Results Show to thank her fans for their votes and support. In the beginning of late December 2007, Coleman partook in the Dancing with the Stars tour that took her across America along with other former competitors until early February 2008.

!Week	!Dance	!Song	!Carrie Ann'sScore	!Len'sScore	!Bruno'sScore	!Total	!Status
1	Foxtrot	"Baby Love" - The Supremes	6	6	7	19	Safe
2		"Bop to the Top" - Ashley Tisdale feat. Lucas Grabeel	9	8	9	26	Safe
3			9	9	9	27	Safe
4	Waltz	"If I Were a Painting" - Kenny Rogers	8	8	8	24	Bottom 2
5		"So Nice" - Bebel Gilberto	9	9	9	27	1st Place
6			9	7	7	23	No EliminationDue to Sara Evans's Withdrawal
7	QuickstepPaso Doble	"Luck Be a Lady" - Frank Sinatra"The Reflex" - Duran Duran	99	99	99	272754/6077/90(/90 due to Evans's withdrawel in Week 6 (6+7))	Bottom 2
8	Dosomething.org to produce a "[[Do Something">Tango (dance)		89	810	810	242953/60

''Gimme Mo''

Gimme Mo' is an online talk show created and executive produced by actress Monique Coleman dedicated to empowering today's youth. Each episode features a compelling topic, such as teen homelessness, obesity, becoming environmentally conscious, body image, sex, drugs, and much more. Their goal is to create an environment where teens feel safe and open to talking about real issues, bringing awareness to organizations that are serving teens, & conducting celebrity interviews to spotlight Hollywood's commitment to giving back.

''UN Youth Champion''

At a ceremony at UN headquarters in New York, Coleman was presented with a letter of recognition of her new role by Assistant Secretary-General Jomo Kwame Sundaram of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.In presenting the letter, Mr. Sundaram said Coleman will work “to raise awareness about the challenges young people face and will highlight the positive contribution they make to their communities.” Coleman said that receiving the designation of Youth Champion was “beyond an honour” and that she would use her new position to promote global efforts to achieve the anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which have a 2015 deadline, with a special emphasis on the empowerment of youth. The International Year was launched on 12 August and runs through 11 August 2011, and among its aims is to advance the participation of young people on global, regional and national issues that affect them.

Philanthropy

Coleman worked with Dosomething.org to produce a "[[Do Something U" video tutorial. The video targets young activists who need a bit of guidance and inspiration to help them carry out their ideas for their communities to fruition. Coleman's video tutorial focused on teaching youth the best way to utilize social media to spread word of ideas and actions.

Filmography

''On Line'' ''High School Musical 3: Senior Year'' ''Promise Rings'' ''Crush'' ''The Reading Room'' ''High School Musical'' ''High School Musical 2'' ''Gilmore Girls'' ''Veronica Mars'' ''Dancing With the Stars'' ''Winx Club'' ''Million Dollar Password'' ''Bones (TV series) ''The Electric Company''

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Year	Film	Role	! Notes
1995	''Mother of the River''	Dofimae
2006	|	Jessie
2008	|	Taylor McKessie
rowspan=2>2010	|	Veronica Baylerd
''We Are Family''	Elise
TBA	|	Chelsea Park
colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"	TV Films
		! Title	! Role	! Channel
1997	''The Ditchdigger's Daughters''	Young Donna
2005	|	Leesha	Hallmark Channel
2006	|	Taylor McKessie	Disney Channel
2007	|	Taylor McKessie	Disney Channel
colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"	Television
! Year	! Title	! Role	! Notes
2006–2007	''The Suite Life of Zack and Cody''	Mary-Margaret
colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"	Television guest appearances
! Year	! Title	! Role	! Notes
rowspan=2>2003	''Strong Medicine''	Tanya
''Boston Public''	Molly
rowspan=4	2004	|	Andy	Episode: "The Nanny and the Professor"
''10-8: Officers on Duty''	Maya Barnes
''Married to the Kellys''	Waitress
''Malcolm in the Middle''	Andrea
2005	|	Gabrielle Pollard
rowspan=2	2006	|	Herself
''The View (U.S. TV series)	The View''	Herself
2007	|	Layla
2008	|	Herself
rowspan=2	2009	Bones'' ||	Becca Hedgepeth	Episode: "The Salt in the Wounds"
''The Cleveland Show''	Fontasia
2010	|	Herself

Awards

19th Annual Young Artist Awards (1996–1997) :Best Performance in a TV MOVIE or FEATURE FILM: Young Ensemble - "Ditchdigger's Daughter" :Best Family TV MOVIE/ PILOT/MINI-SERIES (CABLE) - ''The Ditchdigger's Daughters'', Family Channel Character and Morality in Entertainment Awards (CAMIE) 2006 - ''The Reading Room''

Teen Choice Awards 2006 Award for Choice TV Show: Comedy/Musical - ''High School Musical''

American Music Award 2007 for ''High School Musical 2''

Teen Choice Awards 2009 Award for Choice Movie: Music/Dance - ''High School Musical 3''

References

External links

Monique Coleman at TV.com

Monique Coleman's Official Site

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Name	Charlie Rose
Birthname	Charles Peete Rose, Jr.
Birth date	January 05, 1942
Birth place	Henderson, North Carolina, U.S.
education	Duke University B.A. (1964) Duke University J.D. (1968)
occupation	Talk show hostJournalist
years active	1972–present
credits	''Charlie Rose'', ''60 Minutes II'', ''60 Minutes'', ''CBS News Nightwatch'', ''CBS This Morning''
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Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American television talk show host and journalist. Since 1991 he has hosted ''Charlie Rose'', an interview show distributed nationally by PBS since 1993. He has also co-anchored ''CBS This Morning'' since January 2012. Charlie, along with Lara Logan, has revamped the CBS classic Person to Person, a news program during which celebrities are interviewed in their homes, originally hosted by the legendary Edward R. Murrow.

Early life

Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina, the only child of Margaret Frazier and Charles Peete Rose, Sr., tobacco farmers who owned a country store. As a child, Rose lived above his parents' store in Henderson and helped out with the family business from age seven.. Rose admitted in a Fresh Dialogues interview that as a child his insatiable curiosity was constantly getting him in trouble. A high school basketball star, Rose entered Duke University intending to pursue a degree with a pre-med track, but an internship in the office of Democratic North Carolina Senator B. Everett Jordan got him interested in politics. Rose graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in history. At Duke, he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. He earned a Juris Doctor from the Duke University School of Law in 1968. He met his wife, Mary (''née'' King), while attending Duke.

Career

After his wife was hired by the BBC (in New York), Rose handled some assignments for the BBC on a freelance basis. In 1972, while continuing to work at Bankers Trust, he landed a job as a weekend reporter for WPIX-TV. His break came in 1974, after Bill Moyers hired Rose as managing editor for the PBS series ''Bill Moyers' International Report''. In 1975, Moyers named Rose executive producer of ''Bill Moyers Journal''. Rose soon began appearing on camera. "A Conversation with Jimmy Carter," one installment of Moyers's series ''U.S.A.: People and Politics'', won a 1976 Peabody Award. Rose worked at several networks honing his interview skills until KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth hired him as program manager and gave him the late-night time slot that would become the ''Charlie Rose'' show.

Rose worked for CBS News (1984–1990) as the anchor of ''CBS News Nightwatch'', the network's first late-night news broadcast. The ''Nightwatch'' broadcast of Rose's interview with Charles Manson won an Emmy Award in 1987. In 1990, Rose left CBS to serve as anchor of ''Personalities'', a syndicated program produced by Fox Broadcasting Company, but he got out of his contract after six weeks because of the tabloid-style content of the show. ''Charlie Rose'' premiered on PBS station Thirteen/WNET on September 30, 1991, and has been nationally syndicated since January 1993. In 1994, Rose moved the show to a studio owned by Bloomberg Television, which allowed for improved satellite interviewing.

Rose was a correspondent for ''60 Minutes II'' from its inception in January 1999 until its cancellation in September 2005, and was later named a correspondent on ''60 Minutes''.

Rose was a member of the board of directors of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation from 2003 to 2009. In May 2010, Charlie Rose delivered the commencement address at North Carolina State University.

On November 15, 2011, it was announced that Rose would return to CBS to help anchor ''CBS This Morning'', replacing ''The Early Show'', commencing January 9, 2012, along with co-anchors Erica Hill and Gayle King.

Cameo appearances

Rose has appeared as himself in the 1998 film ''Primary Colors'', in a 2000 episode of ''The Simpsons'' and in the 2008 movie ''Elegy''. He and his show were also used in the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums. He also appears as himself in the 2011 George Clooney directed film, ''The Ides of March''.

Accusations of conflict of interest

While hosting the 2002 Coca-Cola Company shareholders' meeting, Rose said "few companies are able to connect as completely with consumers in the way that Coca-Cola is. It is a privilege to be associated with [The Coca-Cola family] ... This is the business of Coca-Cola: being part of a family, being worldwide, doing well and doing good at the same time." Afterward, Coca-Cola agreed to become what Rose called "a leading underwriter" of ''The Charlie Rose Show'', paying "six or possibly seven figures." Even the Charlie Rose mugs used on his PBS show feature a Coca-Cola logo on one side. Although CBS News policy bars correspondents from doing commercials and product endorsements, the ''Washington Post'' reported CBS was "comfortable" with Rose's actions. Rose insists he "would never do a story on ''60 Minutes II'' about anybody who underwrites my PBS show."

Quiet influence

''The New York Times'' reported that Rose encouraged a discussion between the leaders of NBC and Fox, that led eventually to a mutual reduction in ad hominem attacks between Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly on their respective news programs.

Rose has attended several Bilderberg Group conference meetings, including meetings held in the United States in 2008; Spain in 2010; and Switzerland in 2011. These unofficial conferences hold guests from North America and Western Europe, most of whom are political leaders and businessmen. Details of meetings are closed off to the public and strictly invitation-only, and critics speculate the controversial nature of these meetings of highly influential people. Accusations from conspiracy theorists against The Charlie Rose show claim that it has become the US media outlet for Bilderberg.

Personal life

Rose's twelve-year marriage to Mary Rose (née King) ended in divorce in 1980. Mary is the sister-in-law of Morgan Stanley Chairman John J. Mack. Since 1993, his companion has been socialite and city-planning advocate Amanda Burden, a stepdaughter of CBS founder William S. Paley.

On March 29, 2006, after experiencing shortness of breath in Syria, Rose was flown to Paris and underwent surgery for mitral valve repair in the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital. His surgery was performed under the supervision of Alain F. Carpentier, a pioneer of the procedure. Rose returned to the air on June 12, 2006, with Bill Moyers and Yvette Vega (the show's executive producer), to discuss his surgery and recuperation.

In a 2009 Fresh Dialogues interview Rose described his life as "great and glorious." He added, '"I get up every morning with a new adventure. The adventure is fueled by interesting people. I get a chance to control my own destiny. I do something that is immediately either appreciated or not. I get feedback."

Rose owns a farm in Oxford, North Carolina, an apartment overlooking Central Park in New York City, a beach house in Bellport, New York, an apartment in Washington D.C..and an apartment in Paris, France.

References

External links

Charlie Rose Official website of his eponymous show

Charlie Rose official channel on ''YouTube''

Charlie Rose collected news and commentary at the ''Los Angeles Times''

Charlie Rose shows on Hulu

celebritynetworth.com, Celebrity Net Worth, Charlie Rose

Why Business Loves Charlie Rose David A. Kaplan, ''Fortune'', September 28, 2009

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Name	David Muir
Birth name	David Muir
Birth date	November 08, 1973
Birth place	State of New York
Education	Ithaca College (B.A.)Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown UniversityUniversity of Salamanca
Occupation	Television journalist
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David J. Muir (born November 8, 1973) is an American journalist and anchor for ABC News, the news division of the ABC broadcast-television network based in New York City, New York.

Early life and education

Muir attended Onondaga Junior-Senior High School in Nedrow, a suburb of Syracuse, New York. He then attended Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where he graduated ''magna cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995. Following graduation, he attended the Institute on Political Journalism at The Fund for American Studies, affiliated with Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.. He also studied at the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain.

Career

WTVH television

Muir spent five years as an anchor and reporter at WTVH television in his hometown of Syracuse. While in Syracuse, he filed reports from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel, as well as from the Gaza Strip following the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel. The reports earned him top honors from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. ''The Associated Press'' honored him for Best Enterprise Reporting and Best Television Interview. The Syracuse Press Club recognized him as anchor of the "Best Local Newscast" and he was voted one of Syracuse's "Best Local News Anchors" and a first class hottie by the readers of the ''Syracuse New Times''.

WCVB television

He then joined WCVB television in Boston, Massachusetts. While in Boston, Muir's accolades included winning:

the regional Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting

the National Headliner Award and Associated Press honors for his work tracing the path of the hijackers involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The ''Associated Press'' also bestowed high honors on Muir in recognition of his news-anchoring and reporting.

ABC News

Muir joined ABC News in August 2003 as anchor of the overnight news program ''World News Now''. He has served, since March 2007, as a co-anchor of ''Primetime'' and anchor of ''ABC World News'' on weekends. In addition to these roles, he has reported for all ABC News broadcasts including ''20/20'', ''ABC World News'', ''Good Morning America'', and ''Nightline''. In February 2011, Muir was promoted to anchor both weekend newscast, and the broadcast was named "World News With David Muir".

References

External links

Staff writer (September 1, 2008). "David Muir — Anchor, ''World News Saturday'', Co-Anchor, ''Primetime''. ''ABC News''. Accessed January 13, 2010.

Biography as guest lecturer at ithaca.edu

The Soup Cans Interview: David Muir

''Men's Vogue'' profile and photos

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