Carol Bellamy is the President and CEO of World Learning, a private, non-profit organization that promotes international and intercultural understanding through education, training, exchange and development activities in 77 countries. She is also President of World Learning’s School for International Training (SIT).

Bellamy previously served 10 years as Executive Director of UNICEF, the children’s agency of the United Nations. She was also the first former volunteer to become Director of the Peace Corps.

Bellamy has worked in the private sector at Bear, Stearns & Co., Morgan Stanley, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore. She spent 13 years as an elected public official, including five years in the New York State Senate. In 1978, she became the first woman to be elected to citywide office in New York City when she was elected President of the NYC Council, a position she held until 1985. In 2004, Bellamy was named to Forbes magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women in the World.