Speakers
Ms. Melinda L. Kimble
Senior Vice President, United Nations Foundation
Ms. Melinda Kimble is Senior Vice President, overseeing program areas concerning health, population, the environment, and peace/ human rights. She joined the UN Foundation in May 2000.
Prior to the Foundation, she served as a State Department Foreign Service Officer, attaining the rank of Minister-Counselor. She served in policy-level positions in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, overseeing multilateral development issues and debt policy; in the Bureau of Oceans, International Environment and Scientific Affairs (OES), leading environmental negotiations (e.g, Climate Change Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 1997). Her assignments abroad include Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt and Tunisia.
She speaks French and Arabic and holds two masters degrees: Economics (University of Denver) and MPA (Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government).
