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Adelaide Helen Grant SinclairOC OBE

Born	(1900-01-16)January 16, 1900 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died	November 20, 1982(1982-11-20) (aged 82) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Known for	deputy executive director for programs of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund; Director, Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service

Adelaide Helen Grant Sinclair, OC OBE (January 16, 1900 – November 20, 1982) was a Canadian public servant. She was the second Chairman of the UNICEF Executive Board from 1951 to 1952, and from 1957 to 1967, she was the deputy executive director for programs of UNICEF, and one of the highest ranking women at the United Nations.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Overton Macdonald, she attended Havergal College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from University College, University of Toronto in 1922 and a Master of Arts in 1925. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta at the University of Toronto. She did post-graduate work at the London School of Economics from 1926 to 1929 and the University of Berlin in 1929. She lectured in economics and political science at the University of Toronto.

In 1930 she married Donald Black Sinclair, a Toronto lawyer, who died in 1938. The couple had no children.

During World War II, she was the Director and temporary Commander of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS). She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1945 for her "untiring zeal and outstanding ability, tact and judgement in organizing the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service into a most efficient and well-disciplined unit".

From 1946 to 1957, she was the executive assistant to the Deputy Minister of National Health and Welfare and Canadian representative to UNICEF. From 1957 until her retirement in 1967, she was the Deputy Director of UNICEF.

In 1967, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She received an honorary degree from the University of British Columbia in 1968.

References

"The New York Times: Adelaide Sinclair, 82, Former Unicef Official". The New York Times. November 21, 1982. Retrieved March 6, 2006.
"Adelaide Helen Grant Sinclair fonds". Retrieved March 6, 2006.
"Awards to the Royal Canadian Navy". Retrieved March 6, 2006.

v t e Chairperson and presidents of UNICEF
Chairperson	Ludwik Rajchman (1946–50) Adelaide Sinclair (1951–52) August R. Lindt (1953– 54) Balachandra Rajan (1955–56) Mahmood Shafqat (1957–58) John Ryan (1959) Felix Schnyder (1960) W. A. E. Green (1961) Miguel E. Bustamente (1962–63) Zina Harman (1964–66) Joseph W. Willard (1966–68) İhsan Doğramacı (1968–70) Nils Thedin (1970–72) Narciso G. Reyes (1972–74) Hans Conzett (1974–76) Antonio Ordoñez-Plaja (1976–77) Ferdinand Oyono (1977–78) Sadako Ogata (1978–79) Zaki Hasan (1979–80) Paal Bog (1980–81) Dragan Matelijak (1981–82) Hugo Scheltema (1982–83) Haydée Martínez de Osorio (1983–84) Richard C. Manning (1984–85) Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (1985–86) Maurizio Bucci (1986–87) A.P. Maruping (1987–88) Makoto Taniguchi (1988) Torild Skard (1988–89) Margarita Diéguez (1989–90) Lisbeth Palme (1990–91) Mira Seth (1991–92) Frederick Ward (1992–93) Anne Makinda (1993–94)
Presidents	Anne Makinda (1994) Khalil Makkawi (1995) Ion Goriță (1996) Mercedes Pulido (1997) Michael Powles (1998) Ibrahim Gambari (1999) Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (2000) Movses Abelian (2001) Andrés Franco (2002) Jenö Staehelin (2003) Lebohang K. Moleko (2004) Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi (2005) Andrei Dapkiunas (2006) Javier Loayza (2007) Anders Lidén (2008) Oumar Daou (2009) AK Abdul Momen (2010) Sanja Štiglic (2011) John W. Ashe (2012) Jarmo Viinanen (2013) Macharia Kamau (2014) Maleeha Lodhi (2015) Sven Jürgenson (2016) Walton Alfonso Webson (2017) Tore Hattrem (2018) Omer Dahab Fadl Mohamed (2019) Rabab Fatima (2020) Rytis Paulauskas (2021)

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