Agnes Aggrey-Orleans

Agnes Yahan Aggrey-Orleans (née Bartels), OV, is a Ghanaian diplomat, considered the first female career diplomat in Ghana.

[1][2] 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.

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.

[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.