Mary Chinery-Hesse
Mary Chinery-Hesse | |
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| Chancellor of the University of Ghana | |
| Assumed office 1 August 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Kofi Annan |
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| Born | Mary Blay 29 October 1938 |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Spouse | L.J. Chinery-Hesse |
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Mary Akuokor Chinery-Hesse, FAAS, OSG, née Blay (born 29 October 1938) is an international civil servant and diplomat, serving as the first woman Chancellor of the University of Ghana, inducted on 1 August 2018. She was the first female Deputy Director-General of the International Labour Organization She was also the first woman to attain the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations in the history of the international organisation.