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Mary Chinnery-Hesse appointed
Chancelor of University of Ghana, Legon
Mary
Chinery-Hesse, a retired International civil servant and the
first female Deputy Director of the International Labor
Organization, became the first female Chancellor of the
University of Ghana, Legon, on August 01, 2018.
As a distinguished civil
servant, Ms. Chinery-Hesse has also received many meritorious
awaerrds, including the
Gusi
Peave Prize award.
She was appointed the Chancelor after
Mr. Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the UN and the
last chancellor to occupy the position at Legon, completed his
term of office this year.
Her biography and accomplishment read
as follows:
Ms. Mary Chinery-Hesse of Ghana was “Vice-Chairman of the
National Development Planning Commission. She is also a member
of the country’s Board of the Centre for Policy Analysis, a
Commissioner of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, a
Commissioner of the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in
Africa, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Voluntary
Fund for Technical Cooperation-UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights.
Ms. Chinery-Hesse previously was Deputy Director General of the
International Labour Organization between 1989 and 1999. Before
that she was Resident Representative of the United Nations
Development Programme in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, the Seychelles
and Uganda. Before joining the United Nations she was Principal
Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, and
Secretary of the National Economic Planning Council.
She also served as Chairperson of the Consultative Committee
on Programme and Operational Questions (CCPOQ) of the United
Nations from 1993-1998, Chairperson of the Commonwealth Expert
Group of Eminent Persons on Structural Adjustment and Women,
which prepared the book Engendering Adjustment; a member of the
Council of African Advisers of the World Bank from 1992-1998; a
member of the Eminent Persons’ Advisory Panel of the African
Union; Chairperson of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on
Review of Progress in the Implementation of the Programme for
the Least Developed Countries in the 1990s; and a Member of the
Distinguished High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Financing
for Development (Zedillo Commission).
Ms. Chinery-Hesse received a BA (Hons) in Sociology and
Economics, and Doctor of Laws (Honoris causa) from the
University of Ghana; and postgraduate training in Development
Economics at the University of Dublin.”
The publisher of Ghandot and its readers wish Ms. Mary Chinnery
Hesse a successful term as the Chancelot of Ghana’s premier
university.
E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Publisher
www.ghanadot.com, Washington, DC, August 14, 2018.
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