Wednesday, Sep 27, 2023

BOARD APPOINTMENT – ELSIE ADDO AWADZI

Mrs. Addo Awadzi has over 27 years of professional experience working in various capacities in Ghana and internationally in law, finance, policy and regulatory reforms, financial sector regulation, sustainable development, and public financial management, among others. She is the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, a position she has occupied since February 2018. She is the second woman to occupy the Office of Deputy Governor in the Bank of Ghana’s 66-year history.

As a staunch advocate for inclusive and sustainable finance, she chairs the Alliance for Financial Inclusion’s (AFI) Gender Inclusive Finance Committee, which provides thought leadership and guidance to the AFI network on the design and implementation of measures to close the gender gap in access to finance in developing countries. She is also a member of the Expert Leaders Group on Women’s Financial Inclusion in the Digital Economy, established by the Graça Machel Trust.

Before her appointment as Deputy Governor, Elsie was Senior Counsel of the Financial and Fiscal Law Unit of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she conducted financial sector stability assessments on a number of G20 countries. Previously, Elsie was a Commissioner of Ghana’s Securities & Exchange Commission for six years and worked as an independent consultant for the World Bank, IFC, DfID, Commonwealth Secretariat, and USAID on key financial sector policy and regulatory reforms in Ghana, Africa, and the Caribbean for several years.

She holds an LL.M. degree (International Business and Economic Law) with distinction and a Certificate in W.T.O. Studies from the Georgetown University Law Center (2012), where she was also a Fellow of the Institute of International Economic Law. She also holds an M.B.A. (Finance) Degree and an LL.B. Degree from the University of Ghana (2000 and 1993, respectively) and a post-graduate Qualifying Certificate to practice law from the Ghana School of Law (1995). She holds Honorary Fellowships awarded by the Chartered Institute of Bankers (Ghana) and the Institute of Directors (Ghana) in recognition of her contributions to Ghana’s banking sector and Corporate Governance in Ghana, respectively.