Baroness Valerie Amos CH PC was the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN, she was active in British diplomacy and politics as a British High Commissioner to Australia, Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. Baroness Amos is now the director of SOAS, University of London.

In this film, Baroness Amos talks about moving from Guyana to England as a child, about being a black family in a white environment and about her career.