Henrietta H. Fore

Henrietta Holsman Fore (born December 9, 1948) is an American government official and business executive who was the executive director of UNICEF from 2018 until 2022. Fore is chairman and CEO of Holsman International, a management, investment, and advisory services 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. 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. Her mother was from Switzerland. Her father served the military during World War I. Her grandfather is turn of the century architect Henry K. Holsman, inventor of the Holsman Automobile (1902-1911).

Fore grew up in Santa Barbara, California and attended Crane Country Day School 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. 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. Fore meets with U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 10, 2019. 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.

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.

From May 2007 to January 2009, Fore served as the 13th Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 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. Her successor, Catherine M. Russell, assumed office on February 1, 2022.

Fore is the Chairman and CEO of Holsman International; Chairman and Owner of Stockton Products Director of Imperative Care; Board Trustee of Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); and a Board Member of Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, co-convened by the World Bank Group and WHO.

Personal life Fore lives in Nevada with her husband Richard L. Fore, who has four children.

Selected honors

2022: American Committees on Foreign Relations Distinguished Service Award for the Advancement of Public Discourse on Foreign Policy 2020: U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Leadership Award 2013: CRDF Global’s George Brown Award for International Scientific Cooperation 2009: United States Secretary of State, Distinguished Service Award 2005: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton Award 1997: State of the World Forum, Women Redefining Leadership Award

Selected leadership and memberships 2022–present: GWL Voices for Change and Inclusion (New York) 2022–present: EQT Future Fund, Mission Board Member 2018-2022: Chief Executives Board of the United Nations, Secretariat for the U.N. Secretary-General NY 2018-2022: Global Leadership Council Generation Unlimited, Co-Chair 2018-2021: End Violence Against Children, Chair 2016-2017: Essilor International S.A., Executive Officers & Remuneration Committee and Strategic Committee 2015-2017: Middle East Investment Initiative, Chair of the Board of Directors 2014-2017: Initiative for Global Development, Director, Chair 2014-2017: General Mills, Governance Committee and Public Responsibility Committee 2012-2017: ExxonMobil, Audit Committee and Finance Committee 2007-2009: Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Board Member 1993-2017: Asia Society, Co-chair, Global Board of Directors 1993-2017: The Aspen Institute, Board Trustee 1993-2017: Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP), Board Member 1987-1989: Water Quality Management, Board Member 1987: Stanford Graduate School of Business, Board Governance 1981-1989: Pozacorp, Inc., Chairman of the Board 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

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