Lynda Chalker

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The Right Honourable
The Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
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Official portrait, 2018
Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
In office
2 May 1997 –30 June 1997

Chalker was granted a life peerage as Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, of Leigh-on-Sea in the County of Essex in 1992, [3] after losing her seat at the general election of that year.

Chalker is the founder and president of Africa Matters Limited, an independent consultancy providing advice and assistance to companies initiating, developing or growing their activities in Africa. [4] She is a member of the international advisory board of Lafarge and sits on the board of trustees of the Investment Climate Facility for Africa.[ citation needed ]

She is a consultant for Uganda's Presidential Investors Roundtable (PIRT) that advises the president Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, on ways to improve Uganda's investment climate and competitiveness. [5]

Chalker is a member of the board of trustees of Sentebale, a charity set up to reach Lesotho's poorest children, many of whom are victims of extreme poverty and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She founded the Chalker Foundation, which seeks to support the improvement of healthcare in Africa.

She held the position of non-executive director and chairman of the Corporate Responsibility and Reputation Committee for Unilever, retiring in May 2007, having served three terms of three years. She joined the board of Unilever as an advisory director in 1998, becoming a non-executive director in 2004.[ citation needed ]

Chalker is a former chairman of the Medicines for Malaria Venture, a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to reducing the burden of malaria in disease endemic countries. She is a former non-executive director of Group Five (Pty). She was awarded the Livingstone Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 2000. [6]

In June 2014, Chalker was awarded honorary citizenship of Mozambique by President Armando Guebuza for services to that country. [7]

Chalker was shortlisted for the Grassroot Diplomat Initiative Award in 2015 for her work with Africa Matters, and she remains in the directory of the Grassroot Diplomat Who's Who publication. [8]

In 2018, it was announced that Chalker would take over from Nicholas Crane as president of the Royal Geographical Society.[ citation needed ]

Notes

  1. ↑ As Shadow Minister for Overseas Development
  2. ↑ As Secretary of State for International Development

References

  1. ↑ Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Japan: 12 donor countries + EC Archived 21 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 Reeves, Rachel (7 March 2019). Women of Westminster: the MPs who changed politics. London: IB Tauris. ISBN   978-1-78831-677-4. OCLC   1084655208.
  3. ↑ "No. 52907". The London Gazette . 29 April 1992. p. 7461.
  4. ↑ "Lynda, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey". Africa Matters. Archived from the original on 23 January 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  5. ↑ Lynda Chalker biodata Archived 8 September 2005 at the Wayback Machine , qub.ac.uk; accessed 10 August 2014.
  6. ↑ Royal Scottish Geographical Society website Archived 12 August 2014 at archive.today ; accessed 10 August 2014.
  7. ↑ Former Botswana president to mediate in dialogue with Renamo Archived 14 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine , Club of Mozambique, 18 July 2016
  8. ↑ "Grassroot Diplomat Who's Who". Grassroot Diplomat. 15 March 2015. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
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