International Relations from 2000 to 2015. He along with Kofi Annan played a seminal role in getting all the presidential candidates and their political parties to commit themselves to a violence-free electoral process by signing in January the Abuja Accord that ensured a relatively peaceful election and transition to a new democratic dispensation in Nigeria of President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2015. The positions in which Chief Emeka Anyaoku served/is still serving include the following: 1. 1975 Leader, Commonwealth Mission to Mozambique 2. 1979-90 Member of the Council of Overseas Development Institute in London. 3. 1984-90 Member of Governing Council of the Save the Children Fund 4. 1992- Hon. Member of the Club of Rome 5. 1994-96 Member, World Commission on Forests 6. 2000-06 President, Royal Commonwealth Society 7. 2000- date President, Royal African Society 8. 2001- date Member, United Nations Eminent Persons Group to help advance the aims of the World Conference Against Racism 9. 2002-09 President, World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF 10. 2004-05 Chairman, United Nations Secretary-General's Panel on International support to African Development (NEPAD) 11. 2002-10 Member of the Governing Board of the South Centre in Geneva 12. 2005-13 Trustee of the British Museum 13. 2000-15 Chairman, Presidential Advisory Council on International Relations in Nigeria. 14. 2013- date President, Metropolitan Club, Lagos. Personal life Installed in 1980 as the Ichie Adazie of Obosi, Chief Anyaoku has continued to fulfill the duties of the office of a traditional Ndichie chieftainship in Obosi. The Ichie Anyaoku has been married to Princess Bunmi Anyaoku since 1962. Princess Anyaoku is an Omoba of Abeokuta, Nigeria. Of their marriage, it was written in the Nigerian Sunday Times, then the widest circulating newspaper in the country, that They have four children, Adiba; their daughter– an attorney who serves on the board of Old Mutual plc –and three sons; Oluyemisi, Obiechina, and Emenike. Emeka has two grandchildren, born to Adiba and her husband; Irenne Ighodaro and Osita Ighodaro. In 1990, the heads of all the 19 communities of the Idemili Clan in his home State of Anambra accorded Anyaoku a unique honour by investing him with the title of Ugwumba Idemili. His wife, Bunmi, is also a chieftain – Ugoma Obosi and Idemili – in her own right, with a long involvement in welfare work in Nigeria and in the Commonwealth. Emeka Anyaoku is an Anglican, his father having converted to that faith.