Anna Tibaijuka
Anna Tibaijuka Kajumulo ( born October 12, 1950 in Kagabiro, Muleba, Tanzania ) is a Tanzanian politician and economist. From 2002 to 2010 she was Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme and since 2010 Minister for Housing and Human Settlements under Prime Minister Pinda Mizengo.
Life
Childhood and family
Anna Tibaijuka was born the fifth of eleven children in a small farmer family in the Kagera region on the shores of Lake Victoria. She attended at the behest of her father, a missionary school in Tanzania.
In the 1970s, she married Wilson Tibaijuka. This was, among others, in the 1990s, Tanzanian Ambassador to Sweden. She is the mother of five children. Her husband died in 2000.
Career
From 1972 to 1975 she studied agricultural economics in Dar -es- Salaam, then they made at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala a doctorate in this subject.
From 1993 to 1998 she was professor of economics in Dar -es- Salaam. During this time she was commissioned by the Tanzanian government at various conferences such as the World Food Summit ( Rome, 1996) and the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Istanbul, 1996) in part. In November 1997 she became a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of UNESCO.
In 2000 she became head of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements. After its conversion to a UN program she worked from 2002 Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme ( UN -HABITAT ). From 2004 she was a member of the Commission for Africa, a seventeen -member commission, chaired by Tony Blair, who should analyze the problems of Africa in preparation for the G -8 Summit in 2005.
In July 2004 she received an honorary doctorate from Heriot -Watt University in recognition of their achievements in the areas of welfare economics and women's rights. In 2005 she was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Goodwill Ambassador for the operations of Operation Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe.
In 2010 ended Tibaijukas second term at the head of UN -HABITAT. She was Member of Parliament in their home country Tanzania and took over the Ministry of Housing and Human Settlements in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Pinda Mizengo. In addition, she was elected chairman of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council ( WSSCC ).