Agnes Yahan Aggrey-Orleans, , (née Bartels) is a
Ghanaian diplomat.
Biography
Her father was
Francis Lodowic Bartels
Francis Lodowic Bartels (13 March 1910 – 20 March 2010) was a Ghanaian diplomat and educationalist, who served as Ghana's ambassador to West Germany between 1970 and 1972.
Biography
Francis Bartels was born in Cape Coast to the Rev. Charles ...
, an educator and diplomat who became the first Ghanaian principal of
Mfantsipim School. Agnes Aggrey-Orleans had her secondary education at the
Wesley Girls High School in
Cape Coast
Cape Coast is a city, fishing port, and the capital of Cape Coast Metropolitan District and Central Region of Ghana. It is one of the country's most historic cities, a World Heritage Site, home to the Cape Coast Castle, with the Gulf of Guinea ...
Ghana. She then attended the
University of Ghana. She was married to the Ghanaian diplomat,
James Aggrey-Orleans (1937–2018) who served as the Ghanaian
High Commissioner to the
United Kingdom from October 1997 to March 2001.
Her diplomatic career included positions in various Ghana Missions, including those in
New York
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and the
Holy See.
She invested as a Member of
Order of the Volta Award in 2015 by the then
President of Ghana John Dramani Mahama.
References
Ghanaian diplomats
Living people
University of Ghana alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fante people
Recipients of the Order of the Volta
21st-century Ghanaian people
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