Mary Chinery-Hesse
Mary Chinery-Hesse becomes the first female chancellor of the University of Ghana. She replaced former UN secretary general Kofi Annan.
She has held a number of positions in private and public sector including serving as a member of the Ghana’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.