Anna K. Tibaijuka is Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, the first African woman elected by the UN General Assembly as Under-Secretary-General of a United Nations programme, and is currently serving a second four-year term. In 2005, she served as the Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Human Settlements Issues in Zimbabwe. Dr. Tibaijuka is currently a member of the World Health Organization Commission on the Social Determinants of Health and of the Advisory Board of the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.