Anna Tibaijuka

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Hon. Professor
Anna Tibaijuka
MP

Minister of Lands, Housing and Human
Settlement Developments
Incumbent
Assumed office
28 November 2010
President Jakaya Kikwete
Preceded by John Chiligati
Executive director of UNHABITAT
In office
March 2006 2010
Succeeded by Joan Clos i Matheu
Member of Parliament
for Muleba South
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 2010
Preceded by Wilson Masilingi
Majority Unopposed
Personal details
Born
12 October 1950 (age 63)
Kagabiro, Muleba, Tanganyika
Nationality Tanzanian
Political
party
CCM
Children 4[show]
Alma mater
Sokoine University of Agriculture
(BSc)
Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences (DSc)
Awards Gothenburg Award
Website annatibaijuka.org
Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka (born 12 October 1950) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member
of Parliament for Muleba South constituency since 2010. She is the current Minister of Lands,
Housing and Human Settlement Developments.
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She is also a former under-secretary-general of the United Nations and executive director of the
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT). Until her resignation in 2010
to run for political office in Tanzania, she was the second highest ranking African woman in the
UN system.
Contents
1 Early life and education
2 Academic career
3 United Nations career
o 3.1 Special co-ordinator
o 3.2 Executive director of UN-HABITAT
o 3.3 Special envoy of the secretary general
4 Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council
5 Blair Commission and Commission on Africa
6 Honours and awards
o 6.1 Awards
o 6.2 Honorary degrees
7 References
8 External links
Early life and education
Born in Tanzania, Tibaijuka studied agricultural economics at the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala and is fluent in English, Swahili, Swedish and French. She is
the widow of the former Tanzanian ambassador Wilson Tibaijuka, who died in 2000. She is the
second highest ranking African woman in the UN after Dr Asha-Rose Migiro, the deputy UN
secretary general (who is also a Tanzanian) In October 2010 she became MP for CCM for
Muleba District, Kagera Region, in the national election.
Academic career
From 1993 to 1998 Tibaijuka was associate professor of erconomics at the University of Dar es
Salaam. During this period she was also a member of the Tanzanian government delegation to
several United Nations summits including the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements
(Istanbul, 1996); the World Food Summit (Rome 1996); the Fourth World Conference on
Women (Beijing 1995) and the World Summit for Social Development (Copenhagen, 1995). At
the World Food Summit in Rome, she was elected coordinator for Eastern Africa in the Network
for Food Security, Trade and Sustainable Development (COASAD). zMrs. Tibaijuka has also
been a board member of UNESCO's International Scientific Advisory Board since November
1997. She is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.
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