Agnes Aggrey-Orleans

Her father was Francis Lodowic Bartels, an educator and diplomat who became the first Ghanaian principal of Mfantsipim School.^[3] Agnes Aggrey-Orleans received her secondary education at the Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast Ghana.^[4] 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.^[5][6][7][8] Her diplomatic career included positions in various Ghana Missions, including those in New York and the Holy See.^[1][9][10] She invested as a Member of Order of the Volta Award in 2015 by the then President of Ghana John Dramani Mahama.^[11][12][13]