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Catherine Irene Jacqueline Meyer, CBE (born 26 January 1953) is the wife of Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to the United States. She is the founder and chief executive of the charity Parents & Abducted Children Together (PACT). ==Biography== Meyer's ''Handbook on the Mechanism of the London Metal Exchange Option Market'' was published in 1982. In 1983 she registered as a stockbroker. In 1985 she moved to Germany with her German husband, by whom she had two sons. Despite her having custody of the children after the divorce, their father refused to return them to London after a summer holiday visit in 1994.〔(Parliamentary Debate, 11 June 2002 )〕 This led to her almost decade-long legal battle in the German and English courts to gain access to her sons. It was not until 2003 that she was able to see them again.〔(Interview )〕〔(And no-one lived happily ever after, March 2002, The Independent )〕 Her account of these events is found in her two books, ''Two Children behind a Wall''〔Meyer, C.(''Two Children Behind a Wall'' ). Random House, 1997 Google Book Search. Retrieved on January 15, 2009.〕 and ''They Are My Children Too''.〔Meyer, C.(''They Are My Children Too'' ) Public Affairs, 1999〕 There is also an account in ''DC Confidential'',〔Meyer, Christopher (''DC Confidential'' ), Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005.〕 the memoirs of her 2nd husband, Christopher Meyer. In October 1997, she married Christopher Meyer on the eve of his departure to Washington to become British Ambassador to the United States. During their five and a half years in America, she campaigned against international parental child abduction alongside a number of American parents in a similar situation with Germany.〔(Hearing before subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight, USA, 1999 )〕〔(Campaigning against parental child abduction )〕 In 1998, she was involved in the launch of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC),〔Launch ICMEC ("Launch ICMEC" )〕 launched by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and subsequently becoming CEO of ICMEC/Europe.〔("International Children's Organization Names Respected Leaders to Spearhead its Global Agenda" ) May 1, 2000.〕 In 2000 she created Parents & Abducted Children Together (PACT), affiliated to NCMEC and ICMEC. During her time in Washington D.C., Meyer co-chaired with Ernie Allen two international conferences on improving the effectiveness of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction〔("Forum Conclusions" ) April, 1999.〕 and gave evidence to committees of the United States House of Representatives and the US Senate〔("Missing Children: Testimonies" ) on ("1 October 1998" ) and ("14 October 1999" ),〕 which led to several concurrent resolutions urging better compliance by certain signatory states, including Germany, with the Hague Convention 1996;〔("March 2001:US Con. Res. 69," "May 2000: US Con. Res. 293," "March 2000:US Con. Res. 98" )〕 and persuaded both Presidents Clinton and Bush to raise with the German Chancellor cases of parental child abduction to Germany, including her own.〔("The Independent" ) May 31, 2000. Retrieved on January 15, 2010.〕 She has also taken her campaign against international parental child abduction to Europe, giving evidence before the Belgian Senate.;〔("Seminar on the Application of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction" ) March 29, 2000.〕 successfully lobbying the EU to tighten its rules against parental child abduction;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Parental responsibility )〕 and, together with ICMEC, persuading the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Convention to produce a good practice guide to the implementation of the Convention.〔("Guide of Good Practice" )〕 In the UK, Meyer instigated adjournment debates in the House of Commons on her case and the issue of parental child abduction in general across frontiers. In 2005, the Parliamentary Ombudsman upheld her complaint of maladministration against the then Lord Chancellor's Department with regard to the handling of her case.〔("Parliamentary Ombudsman" ), 25 May 2011〕 Since 2003 and her return to the UK from America, she has broadened PACT's mission to embrace children who go missing for any reason.〔("Campaign supported by Tesco" )〕 This has led to close cooperation with the Home Office, the police, CEOP and other charities.〔()〕 She is a member of the Home Secretary's Strategic Oversight Group on missing people, created in 2006 by David Blunkett. Her campaigns have focussed on the difficulties of measuring exactly how many children go missing every year;〔("Every Five Minutes" )〕 the adoption by police forces of the Missingkids Website;〔("Missingkids website" )〕 and the Child Rescue Alert.〔(Rescue Alert'' )〕 On 25 May 2011, International Missing Children's Day, the Home Office announced major changes to child protection services in the UK, in particular the passing of responsibility for missing, abducted and exploited children to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency (CEOP). This was the culmination of a ten-year lobbying campaign. Meyer's role was recognised in the Home Office press release.〔("Home Office announcement" ), 25 May 2011〕 In 2003, Meyer was co-chair of Vote 2004,〔("Daily Telegraph ), 7 June 2003〕 which campaigned for a referendum on the still-born European Constitution.〔("Daily Telegraph" ), 17 October 2003〕 She is a National Treasurer of the Conservative Party. From 2003 to 2007 she was a non-executive director of LIFFE (London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange).〔("Debretts" )〕 From 2013 to 2014 she was a trustee of the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences.〔http://london-institute.org/trustees.shtml〕 In 1999, Meyer received the Adam Walsh Rainbow Award〔("Adam Walsh Awards" )〕 for outstanding contribution to children's causes and was named by ''British Airways Business Life'' magazine for her campaigning on behalf of abducted children. In 2009 and 2010 PACT successfully passed rigorous inspection and audit by, respectively, the City Bridge Trust and the financial services company ICAP to qualify for major donations.〔("ICAP Charity Day" )〕 During her time in Washington, Meyer was entrusted with the last major redecoration of the Ambassador's residence, a building designed by the eminent British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, and built in the 1920s. Under her guidance the reception rooms were redecorated, the bedrooms redesigned and the bathrooms modernised.〔("British Embassy Residence" )〕 Meyer was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to children and families. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catherine Meyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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