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).
Melinda
L. Kimble
