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.[1]

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.[2]