Henrietta Holsman Fore (born December 9, 1948) is an

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public health and international development executive who served as the 7th Executive Director of

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till January 2022. Fore currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Holsman International, a management, investment, and advisory services company. She served in three presidential appointments under President

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: Fore was the first woman Administrator of the

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(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

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in the U.S. Department of Treasury. She was the presidential appointee for President

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at the

Early life and education

Fore was born in

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. Her mother was from

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. Her father served the military during

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. Her grandfather is turn of the century architect Henry K. Holsman, inventor of the Holsman Automobile (1902-1911). Fore grew up in

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and attended Crane Country Day School and Cold Springs School. She attended the Graham-Eckes School in

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, and graduated in 1966 from

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, a private girls boarding school in

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. In 1970, Fore received a

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in history, economics, and art from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

. In 1975, she received a

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in public administration from the

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. In 1986, she studied international politics at the

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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. 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

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. From 2001 to 2005, Fore served as the 37th Director of the

in the U.S. Department of Treasury, serving Secretary of Treasury, Paul H. O'Neill and Secretary of Treasury

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. From 2005 to 2007, Fore served as

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, the Chief Operating Officer for the

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, serving Secretary of State,

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. From May 2007 to January 2009, Fore served as the 13th Administrator of the

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(USAID), and Director of United States Foreign Assistance, holding the equivalent rank as

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. In January 2018, Fore was appointed as the executive director of

by the Secretary-General of the United Nations,

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. As part of this position, Fore has worked in collaboration with

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, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and the

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, among others, to facilitate vaccination to combat the

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global pandemic. Fore resigned in July 2021 to attend to her husband’s serious health issue but offered to stay on until her successor was recruited. Her successor,

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, assumed office on February 1, 2022. Fore is currently the Chairman and CEO of Holsman International; Chairman and Owner of Stockton Products and Vincenza; and Chairman and Managing Partner of Seaward International Company. She also serves as a Mission Board Member of EQT Future Fund; Director of Imperative Care; Board Trustee of

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(CSIS); and a Board Member of Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, co-convened by the

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and

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Personal life

Fore lives in Nevada with her husband Richard L. Fore, who has four children. She has one sister, Marta Babson. Fore is a Republican.

Selected honors

* 2022:

Emperor of Japan, Imperial Palace ''Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun'' * 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:

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, 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 * 2022–present: Imperative Care, Director * 2022–present, 2009-2017: Seaward International Company, Chairman and CEO * 2022–present, 1995-2017:

(CSIS), Board Trustee * 2022–present, 1993-2017: Holsman International, Chairman and CEO * 2022–present, 1977-2017: Stockton Products, President and Director * 2020–present: Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, co-convened by the

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and

* 2018-2022: UNICEF, Executive Director * 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:

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, Governance Committee and Public Responsibility Committee * 2012-2017:

ExxonMobil ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, and was formed on November 30, ...

, Audit Committee and Finance Committee * 2011-2017: Center for Global Development, Director * 2010-2017:

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, Trustee * 2010-2017: Theravance Biopharma US, Inc., Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee * 2009-2015: WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation (New York), Global Co-chair * 2007-2009:

Millennium Challenge Corporation The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a bilateral United States foreign aid agency established by the U.S. Congress in 2004. It is an independent agency separate from the State Department and USAID. It provides grants to countries that h ...

, Board Member * 2007-2009:

Overseas Private Investment Corporation The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) was the United States Government's Development finance institution until it merged with the Development Credit Authority (DCA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID ...

, Board Member * 1993-2017:

Asia Society The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) and around the world (Hong Kong, Man ...

, Co-chair, Global Board of Directors * 1993-2017:

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, 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 The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...

, Board Governance * 1981-1989: Pozacorp, Inc., Chairman of the Board *

American Academy of Diplomacy The American Academy of Diplomacy is a private, nonprofit, non-partisan, elected organization whose active membership is limited to men and women who have held positions of high responsibility in crafting and implementing American foreign policy. ...

, Member * American Leadership for a WaterSecure World Campaign Cabinet, Member * Chief Executives Organization, Member *

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, Member *

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, Member *

Economic Club of New York The Economic Club of New York is a U.S. nonprofit and non-partisan membership organization dedicated to promoting the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions. History Founded in 1907, the Economic Club of New York is t ...

, Member *

International Women's Forum The International Women's Forum (IWF), founded in 1974 as the Women's Forum of New York, is an invitation-only women's organization with some 7,000 members. Its mission is "to support the women leaders of today and tomorrow". The IWF hosts two con ...

, Member * Wellesley College Business Leadership Council, Member * YPO/WPO, Member

Selected works and publications

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References

External links

USAID biography

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