Board of Trustees
IVOR AGYEMAN – DUAH
IVOR AGYEMAN – DUAH
Ivor Agyeman-Duah
He is the founder and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Renewal, a Public Policy organization in Ghana. He holds an MA degree from the University of Wales, an MSc in Economic Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and an MSc in the History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
From 2009 to 2014, he was special advisor to President John Agyekum Kufuor on international development cooperation, and in this capacity worked with the World Food Programme in Kenya and Ethiopia and the Geneva-based international peacebuilding organization Interpeace. He has done work for the World Bank and World Bank Institute in Washington, DC. Agyeman-Duah was formerly head of Public Affairs at the Ghana Embassy in Washington, DC, and later Culture and Communication Advisor at the Ghana High Commission in London, and has been a consulting fellow of the African Center for Economic Transformation. He has also held fellowships at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and been a Hilary and Trinity resident scholar at Exeter College, Oxford.
Also active in literary and cultural fields, Agyeman-Duah has written or edited many publications, including 2014’s Crucible of the Ages: Essays in Honour of Wole Soyinka at 80, a book described as “a timely volume with majestic, priceless and supreme intellectual importance”, featuring contributors including Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Busby, Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Kwame Anthony Appiah, Ali Mazrui, Derek Walcott, Atukwei Okai, Cameron Duodu, Toyin Falola, Osei Tutu II (king of Asante), John Mahama and Thabo Mbeki. Agyeman-Duah serves as Development Policy Advisor for the Lagos-based Lumina Foundation,[6] which established the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, and he was the 2014–15 Chair of the Literature Jury of the Millennium Excellence Foundation.[3]
He wrote, co-directed and produced two television documentary films – Yaa Asantewaa: The Exile of King Prempeh and the Heroism of an African Queen, premiered in Ghana in 2001, and The Return of a King to Seychelles, which was shown at Chatham House in 2015. Agyeman-Duah was also historical consultant to Margaret Busby‘s 2001 theatrical production about Yaa Asantewaa (Yaa Asantewaa – Warrior Queen).
DR. KWAME AMOAH BAAH – NUAKOH
DR. KWAME AMOAH BAAH – NUAKOH
Dr Kwame Baah – Nuakoh is currently the General Manager in Charge of Strategy and Investment at the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. Prior to the appointment he was the Head, Strategic Planning, Research & Corporate Affairs at the Consolidate Bank Ghana (CBG).
He lectured at both the Graduate and Undergraduate levels at the Economics Department of University of Ghana for 12 years. He holds a PhD from the University of Stirling, an MPhil and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics from the University of Ghana, and is also an alumnus of Harvard University (USA). He has over 17 years of research experience and consulted on Macroeconomics for the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).
As a communications specialist, Dr. Baah – Nuakoh has over 20 years working experience in the media, having worked in various capacities as Host of several Radio and Television Talk Shows, as well as Media and International Relations Manager of Kumasi Asante Kotoko SC Ltd. The only Ghanaian member of the Chartered Institute for Management of Sport and Physical Activity – UK (CIMPSA), Dr. Baah – Nuakoh is a member of the Board of Directors of both Finasport Limited and Football Trust Limited. He is also the Chairman of the Ghana Football Association committee on Club licensing.
PATIENCE LARTEY
PATIENCE LARTEY
Ms Patience Lartey is the Executive Director of the Coastal Network Foundation based in Prampram in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. As someone who is passionate about the wellbeing of humanity, she has worked on various projects aimed at bringing the much needed relief to the deprived across the country.
Over the last three decades, Ms Lartey has worked as a Community and Corporate Relations Person in Project Management, CSR Management in the Banking, and the Oil & Gas sector.
She is currently the Deputy Manager in Charge of Occupational Health at the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC). Prior to this, she was Deputy Manager and Head of Social Performance and Local Content at GNPC. As part of her managerial roles, she previously headed the Environment and Social Amenities Unit at the GNPC Foundation and doubled as the Board Secretary.
In 2015, Ms Lartey joined The Royal Bank (now Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited) where she was Administrator of the Royal Bank Foundation. She also worked as Senior Production Manager at Affiliated Computer Services, a Fortune 500 Company.
She holds a Master of Arts in Ministry from the Trinity Theological Seminary (Legon 2015), Master of Business Administration in Human Resource Management from the Methodist University College (July 2010), and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Marketing Management from the University of Ghana, Legon (2006). She is an accredited member of the Institute of Public Relations. In 2018 she participated in a course in Dubai UAE organsied by Petronomics Limited under the theme “Engagement and Negotiation Strategy in Community Relations”. In the same year, she participated in a Brokering Multi Stakeholder Partnerships programme in the USA organized by Partnership Brokers Association USA.