JCI United Kingdom appoints new President

Amanda Fitzsimmons has been elected as the new President of JCI United Kingdom, a growing leadership development organisation for people in their 20s to 30s.

JCI UK is part of Junior Chamber International (JCI), a global leadership development network for people in their 20s and 30s. The organisation has over 250,000 active members in more than 123 countries.

Amanda Fitzsimmons, was born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. She studied Commerce at the University of Birmingham. She has worked for NatWest and T Mobile and is currently Director of Marketing Analytics at GE Money in Leeds.

Fitzsimmons joined JCI Birmingham in 1993 and held various directorships of her local organisation before becoming Deputy Conference Director for the JCI European Conference in 2003. Fitzsimmons joined the national board of Directors for JCI UK as Marketing Director in 2004.

At the recent National Awards Weekend held in Newcastle, Fitzsimmons was installed at National President. During her inaugural speech she said,

ìI am very honoured to serve this organisation as National President in 2007, an organisation I have been a member of for 13 years and all of those years very different in terms of the opportunities offered.

ìIn 2007 we will be Building for the Future, building skills for our members futures (communication skills, change management skills) and also launching new chambers, building for the future of JCI UK and opening up to many more people the world of opportunities that JCI UK membership offers.î

Amanda Fitzsimmons joins an impressive list of famous JCI alumni including US Presidents, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon; Bob Hawk, former Prime Minister of Australia; Jacques Chirac, President of France; Poul Schluter ex-Prime Minister of Denmark; Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister of Japan and now Founder and Honorary President of the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum; Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, former Prime Minister of Poland; Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary General and Prince Albert of Monaco.