Margaret Anstee

Dame Margaret Anstee
Dame Margaret Anstee at the Honduran Military Academy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Born
Margaret Joan Anstee

25 June 1926
Writtle, Essex, England
Died25 August 2016(2016-08-25) (aged 90)
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
University of London
Occupation(s)Diplomat at the United Nations
(1952–1993)

Dame Margaret Joan Anstee, DCMG (25 June 1926 – 25 August 2016)[1] was a British diplomat who served at the United Nations for over four decades (1952–93), rising to the rank of an Under-Secretary-General in 1987.[2] She was the first woman to hold this position.[3]

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