Board of Directors

Kwaku is the Chairman of the Board of the National Communications Authority. He is an award-winning broadcaster, strategic communications specialist and telecommunications policy advocate. His communications skills honed over 30 years in blue-chip local and international media covering print, wire service, radio & television, are top-of-the-shelf.

The Government of Ghana awarded him the Order of the Volta, one of the country's highest honours in 2008. He is a two-time Journalist of the Year award winner (1986 & 1996). Mr. Sakyi-Addo is currently a Partner at Activate Africa, a strategic communications company in Accra. He is also Executive Producer and Presenter of The Lounge, a unique talk programme broadcast from a live bar on radio and TV. He was the founding CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications from 2011 - April 2017. He was correspondent for the BBC from 1994-2007 and for Reuters, the world’s largest wire service from 1998-2007. He also hosted The Front Page, must-listen weekly current affairs talk programme on Joy FM for 16 years (1995 – 2011), and was Presenter and Executive Producer of ‘Kwaku One-on-One’, a personality interview show on television for nearly 10 years until 2010.

He has been published by reputable publications including the Economist, and the Telegraph and the Mail in the UK. He has interviewed scores of global leaders including the last three Secretary-Generals of the UN. He is a Chevening Scholar, Fellow of the Aspen Institute Global Leadership Network, Africa Leadership Initiative West Africa, and World Press Institute. Mr. Sakyi-Addo is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and Institute of Public Relations (Ghana) and member of the Ghana Journalists’ Association. He holds an Executive Masters of Governance and Leadership from GIMPA, Graduate Diploma in Communications from the University of Ghana. Added to these, he holds Advanced Diplomas in Communications from the International Institute for Journalism in Berlin, University of Wales in Cardiff, and in American Studies from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Christabel E. Dadzie is an international development specialist with extensive experience working on economic development across Africa, in Latin America and South Asia, leading projects in education, gender, agriculture, trade, social protection and youth employment with various international development organisations including United Nations entities and for the USAID. Currently, she works with the World Bank as a Senior Social Protection Specialist, leading the Ghana and The Gambia portfolios to promote social inclusion, youth employment, and ending extreme poverty. Additionally, she has supported the Social Protection and Jobs projects in Liberia in Sierra Leone. For the former, she co-led the development and implementation of an adolescent girls’ program to revive businesses of young women whose businesses were shut down as a result of the Ebola Virus Disease crisis.

Upon returning to Ghana from the US in 2010, she identified the need to promote Brain Gain among young Ghanaian professionals by supporting the returnee transition. She therefore founded Ahaspora Professionals Network (www.ahaspora.com), an organisation which supports Ghanaian professionals who have lived or studied abroad and return home to make a difference. Starting with 12 people in 2011, Ahaspora currently has over 3000 members, connecting home and abroad both professionally and socially. Ahaspora has a flagship mentoring program for high school students across Ghana as its give-back initiative which has reached over 1000 students to date.

Christabel is a Board Member of Emerging Public Leaders organisation and the Databank Foundation, on the Management team and a mentor for the Moremi young African women leadership initiative, and a member of the Women’s Advisory Board of The College of Wooster in Ohio, where she earned a Bachelors’ Degree in International Relations. She also has a Masters’ Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.

Prof. Ofori-Atta is a Clinical Psychologist at University of Ghana Medical School, Ghana. Angela has taught and practiced as a clinical psychologist at the University of Ghana Medical Center since she graduated with a doctorate from the University of British Columbia in 1992, where she was a commonwealth scholar for six years. Between 1994 and 1998, she was part of a team that set up mental health services in the most deprived region of Ghana; the Upper West Region.

She also set up and ran two volunteer organizations: Youthwatch for AIDS which taught 10,000 pupils about HIV/AIDS from an empowerment and psychological perspective, while the volunteer project renovated the children’s ward of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital and brought young volunteers from Holland and Ghana to stimulate the patients on the ward. Angela served on boards of various non-governmental and civil society organizations working in the area of democracy and good governance. These included the Centre for Democracy and Development, the Busia Foundation, and the Ghana Integrity Initiative.

After seven years of teaching, Angela entered into the world of politics as a Deputy Minister for Manpower Development and Employment. During that time, the International Labor Organization (ILO) arranged two weeks of one-on-one tuition in employment issues at the ILO’s centre in Turin. In less than two years of government office, Angela expanded a government project of skills training and employment placement (STEP) of 2,000 participants to 30,000, and is acknowledged for making employment a cross-cutting issue of the development strategy for Ghana in the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy.

Out of government but continuing in active political life, Angela worked on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s 2005 election campaign both in Liberia and in West Africa. She has since been part of an ILO mission to Liberia to assess employment issues for a nation now emerging from conflict. Currently, Angela continues to teach at the medical school while pursuing her civil society and political interests. Angela is married to Ken and they have three children.

She has a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Zoology from the University of Ghana. Since her teaching career began, Angela has introduced new courses to the curriculum of both the departments of Psychiatry and Psychology in Ethics and Professionalism.

Kojo is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Databank Group. He has over 18 years of experience in financial services. Prior to joining Databank Group, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Ghana Commercial Bank Limited, Ghana’s largest and most profitable bank. Before that, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Barclays Bank Ghana Limited, the largest foreign-owned bank in Ghana.

He has a wealth of experience and an in-depth knowledge of the financial services industry in Ghana. Kojo’s experience is not only in the commercial banking space, as his career began at Databank in 1998 with the corporate finance team. This is where the Databank’s Leap High values of Leadership, Excellence, Humility and Integrity were imbibed in him. Kojo has lived by these values throughout his successful career and will continue to ensure it is the cornerstone of Databank Group.

After his short stint at Databank in the 90s, Kojo worked with the Standard Chartered group for several years where he played various roles in Ghana, India, Kenya and Botswana. Kojo is an avid soccer fan, wrote a column in the Kotoko Express for over 15 years. Kojo is a national TV pundit and also hosts the morning show on various radio stations from time to time. With a heart for helping those in need, Kojo is a Director of the Changing Lives Endowment Fund, aimed at supporting bright and needy children at the SHS level. Kojo is motivated by his desire for excellence and results, which is reflected in every task that he completes, both inside and outside of the office, and in the people that he surrounds himself with. Kojo holds both an MBA in Finance and a BA in Economics from the University of Ghana, Legon. He is married with one child.