# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-chinery-hesse
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:42:46.015Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-chinery-hesse"
name: "Mary Chinery-Hesse"
slug: "mary-chinery-hesse"
description: "Mary Akuokor Chinery-Hesse, née Blay 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 \n."
tagline: "Ghanaian diplomat and international civil servant"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chancellors_office_new.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1938"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Mary Chinery-Hesse"
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    title: "Չայների Հեսե"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump