2013 after parliamentary approval. While serving as Minister for Foreign Affairs, she was also a member of the National Security Council and the Armed Forces Council. When President Mahama became the chairman of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government in March 2014, Tetteh became the chairperson of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers at the same time. After leaving her office in 2017, Tetteh was as Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at Robert Bosch Foundation. From 2017 until 2018, she served as a Co-Facilitator in the IGAD-led High-Level Forum for the Revitalisation of the Agreement for the resolution of the conflict in South Sudan. Career with the United Nations, 2018–present In 2018, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Tetteh as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON), succeeding Sahle-Work Zewde. Shortly after, she again succeeded Zewde, this time as Special Representative to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU). Following the resignation of Ghassan Salamé as head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) in 2020, Guterres suggested Tetteh as his successor; instead, the role went to Ján Kubiš. In 2022, Guterres appointed Tetteh as his Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, thereby switching positions with Parfait Onanga-Anyanga. Personal life Tetteh is the sister of Gizella Tetteh Agbotui member of parliament for Awutu Senya West Constituency where she also served as member of parliament. See also List of Mills government ministers Awutu-Senya constituency List of foreign ministers in 2017 References External links Profile on Ghana government website Living people 1967 births Ghanaian women lawyers Ghanaian MPs 2001–2005 Ghanaian MPs 2013–2017 University of Ghana alumni Foreign ministers of Ghana Trade ministers of Ghana Industry ministers of Ghana National Democratic Congress (Ghana) politicians Ghanaian people of Hungarian descent Hungarian people of Ghanaian descent People from Szeged Female foreign ministers 21st-century Ghanaian women politicians Cabinet Ministers of Ghana Women government ministers of Ghana Women members of the Parliament of Ghana Ghanaian women diplomats People educated at Wesley Girls' Senior High School Ghana School of Law alumni Special Envoys of the Secretary-General of the United Nations 20th-century Ghanaian lawyers