Carol Bellamy Receives 2006 SPA Distinguished Leadership Award
Posted on June 15, 2006

Carol Bellamy

Carol Bellamy, President and CEO of World Learning, received the 2006 Distinguished Leadership in Public Service Award, the UCLA School of Public Affairs’ highest honor, at a ceremony held May 25 at UCLA. The award was given in recognition of extraordinary public leadership to an individual whose life and work exemplify a commitment to excellence in public problem-solving. The award was presented by Barbara J. Nelson, Dean of the School of Public Affairs.

Following the presentation of the award, Bellamy delivered a speech titled, “The Future of Global Leadership,” hitting on issues facing the world today such as what is being done to help future generations live a better life in the world and opportunities to shape the next generation of global leaders.

World Learning is a private, non-profit international organization that promotes international and intercultural understanding, democracy, social justice, and economic development, through education, training, and field projects in more than 100 countries on five continents around the globe.

Prior to joining World Learning, Bellamy completed 10 years as executive director of UNICEF, the children’s agency of the United Nations. Before joining UNICEF, Ms. Bellamy was Director of the United States Peace Corps. Having served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala from 1963 to 1965, she was the first former volunteer to run the organization. Bellamy, who spent 13 years as an elected public official, including five years in the New York State Senate, was the first woman to be elected president of the New York City Council.

The event also included the presentation of this year’s Torang Jahan Prize. Charles Mahoney, a Ph.D. student in the UCLA Department of Political Science was this year’s recipient of the prize, which was established in 2003 by Jahan, a 1993 UCLA alumna to encourage and acknowledge outstanding graduate student scholarship in globalization studies.