Mary Chinery-Hesse

Mary Chinery-Hesse
FAAS, OSG
Mary Chinery-Hesse FAAS, OSG
Chancellor of the University of Ghana
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 August 2018
Preceded by	Kofi Annan
Personal details
Born	Mary Blay; 29 October 1938
Spouse	L.J. Chinery-Hesse
Children	3, including Herman Chinery-Hesse
Parents	Robert Samuel Blay (father); Marjorie Lady Mould (mother);
Education	Wesley Girls' High School; University of Ghana, Legon; Trinity College Dublin;
Occupation	International civil servant; Diplomat;
Known for	First woman Deputy Director-General, ILO; First woman Chancellor, University of Ghana;
Awards	Order of the Star of Ghana; Gusi Peace Prize;

Mary Akuokor Chinery-Hesse, 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 .