Catherine Meyer, Baroness Meyer
Lady (Catherine) Meyer is the wife of Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to the United States.
Background
In 1999 she co-founded the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC),[1] the international arm of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), subsequently becoming CEO of ICMEC/Europe.[2] In 2000, she created her own charity, PACT5, affiliated to ICMEC.[3]
During her time in Washington, Lady Meyer gave evidence to committees of the US Congress and the US Senate,[4] which led to several con-current resolutions urging better compliance by certain signatory states, including Germany, with the Hague Convention 1996;[5]and persuaded both Presidents Clinton and Bush to raise with the German Chancellor cases of parental child abduction to Germany, including her own.[6]
She has also taken her campaign against international parental child abduction to Europe, giving evidence to the Belgian Senate.[7]
Career
Lady Meyer has published two books: Two Children behind A Wall[8] and They Are My Children Too.[9] There is also an account of her struggle to see her children in DC Confidential, the memoirs of her husband, Sir Christopher Meyer.[10] From 2003 to 2007 she was a non-executive director of the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange. In 1999 she received the Adam Walsh Rainbow Award for outstanding contribution to children's causes.[11]
References
- ^ "Hillary Rodham Clinton and Cherie Booth Join Foces to Support the Launch of a Worldwide Project Against International Child Abduction" April 23, 1999.
- ^ "International Children's Organization Names Respected Leaders to Spearhead its Global Agenda" May 1, 2000.
- ^ "PACT"
- ^ "Missing Children: Testimonies" October 1, 1998 and October 14, 1999.
- ^ "March 2001:US Con. Res. 69," "May 2000: US Con. Res. 293," "March 2000:US Con. Res. 98"
- ^ "The Independent" May 31, 2000. Retrieved on January 15, 2010.
- ^ "Seminar on the Application of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction" March 29, 2000. Retrieved on January 15, 2010.
- ^ Meyer, C.Two Children Behind a Wall. Random House, 1997. Google Book Search. Retrieved on January 15, 2009.
- ^ Meyer, C.They Are My Children Too Public Affairs, 1999. Google Book Search. Retrieved on January 15, 2010.
- ^ Meyer, Christopher DC Confidential. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005. Google Book Search. Retrieved on January 15, 2010.
- ^ "Create Child Advocacy: Global Perspectives" Kumari and Brooks, 2004. Google Book Search. Retrieved on January 19, 2010.