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Goli Ameri (in Persian: گلی عامری ''née'' Goli Yazdi, born September 26, 1956) is an Iranian-American diplomat and businesswoman from the U.S. state of Oregon. She is the President and CEO of the Center for Global Engagement, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering engagement between U.S. society and the rest of the world with a view to promoting shared values and common interests and increasing mutual understanding and respect.〔(About the Center for Global Engagement )〕 She is the former Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. She is also the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. She ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 2004, and is a former U.S. Representative to the United Nations. She was born in Tehran, Iran.〔 == Life and business career == Ameri first came to the United States when she was 17 in 1974 to attend Stanford University. There, she earned a B.A. in Communications and French Literature and, later, her M.A. in Communications. She also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.〔 At Stanford, she met and later married then-fellow student Jamsheed "Jim" Ameri, now a real estate investor. She became a United States citizen in 1989.〔(Goli Ameri Sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs )〕 She has two sons.〔(U.S. Delegation to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights: Biography of Goli Ameri )〕 Ameri was founder and president of eTinium, Inc., a telecommunications consulting firm in Portland, Oregon.〔 She is the author of over fifty market studies and wrote a bi-monthly industry analysis column for ''Telephony'' magazine. She has been quoted in such publications as The National Business Journals, ''The Oregonian, The Seattle Times, The San Jose Mercury News,'' and ''Internet Week'' and has been invited as a speaker and moderator to industry conferences worldwide.〔 Prior to founding eTinium, Ameri was a director at U.S. Leasing, a former division of Ford Credit and Fleet Bank, in San Francisco.〔 She served on the steering committee of the Babson in Oregon M.B.A. program, and was a member of the Oregon Steering Committee on the Campaign for Undergraduate Education for Stanford University.〔 She was a trustee and the Vice Chair for Development for the Catlin Gabel School, overseeing fundraising activities for the scholarship fund and teacher education.〔 Ameri has also taught Junior Achievement classes in Oregon. She is fluent in English, French and Persian, as well as conversant in Spanish.〔 In October 2007, Ameri was named as one of the "100 Most Powerful Women in the Northwest" by ''The NW Women's Journal'' for her UN service and her position on the Advisory Board of the National Education for Women's Leadership program at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University.〔(NW Women's Journal 100 Most Powerful Women in the Northwest )〕 Ameri received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor on May 11, 2008.〔(NECO: The 2008 Ellis Island Medal of Honor Recipients )〕 The award is given annually to 100 recipients to pay tribute to the experiences and individual achievements of immigrants to the United States. In 2012, Ameri was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the international NGO Freedom House.〔(FreedomHouse.org: Board Of Trustees )〕 The Carnegie Corporation of New York included Ameri in its annual list of "Immigrants: The Pride of America," which was published on July 4, 2012 in the New York Times.〔(NYTimes_4th_July_ad_2012 )〕 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「Goli Ameri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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