Ideas, tested
& turned into action.

Prempeh College, Kumasi

I was Editor-in-Chief of the school magazine, Vice-President of the Writers and Debaters Club and Vice-President of the Baptist Students' Union. As a Prime Speaker on the debate team, I opened, established and defended its case.

In one run we won the Ghana National Debate Championship, the Northern Sector Debate Championship and the Akwasidae Kese Debate Championship.1 At the University of Ghana I kept debating, taking the Silver Medal in the Inter-Hall Championship and third at the Chase Festival.

Third in the world, World Bank essay prize

My essay Greening the Ghanaian Youth was one of eight global finalists among 2,469 submissions from 150 countries, and took third place worldwide.2 The finalists presented in Seoul, where I addressed more than 400 people.

The World Bank later published my writing on community-based financing, climate preparedness and environmental education.3 The recognition also took me to Satya Wacana Christian University in Salatiga, Indonesia, to present on climate change.

Mandela Washington Fellow

Selected from more than 50,000 applicants as one of the 500 inaugural Mandela Washington Fellows,4,5 I completed the Business and Entrepreneurship programme at Yale, learning alongside emerging African leaders and engaging with people from McKinsey and IBM.

The fellowship culminated in Washington, D.C., where I met President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. The New Haven Register covered the inaugural cohort's summer at Yale.6

Director's Award, Oxford Saïd

The Oxford award supports the MSc at Saïd Business School. It follows a 2019 Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation scholarship to the Geneva Graduate Institute, where I completed an Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices and an MAS in International Relations.

Country Manager, then Regional Head

At one of the early pico-solar companies, I led business development and partnerships before becoming Country Manager for Ghana, delivering energy access to more than 10,000 households. In 2014 I became Regional Head for West and Central Africa, leading market development and partnerships across a region of more than 20 countries.4,5

I worked with the World Bank's Lighting Global, IFC's Lighting Africa, DFID and the European Commission, and grew revenue about 20 per cent a year. In Ghana the company opened a national office, ran a schools essay competition and lit the East Legon Police Station.10,11,12 In 2016 I represented Barefoot Power at the Smart Villages West Africa workshop in Accra.13,14

Project Manager to Country Director

I joined to support a rural-energy portfolio centred on the EU-funded Light Up Liberia programme, in a country recovering from conflict and Ebola. My role expanded from programme leadership to management of the country portfolio.15

By 2018 I was Country Director, with executive responsibility for more than 200 staff and programmes across energy, market systems, livelihoods, agriculture, food security, health and youth employment. With partners including Sida, USAID, AFD, the EU and the UAE, I grew the portfolio from about US$32M to US$60M in two years.16,17,18,19

In 2019 Mercy Corps and Lonestar Cell MTN launched a mobile-money system for solar customers, by which point distributors had installed more than 1,100 pay-as-you-go systems.20 A UAE-supported health programme delivered equipment and an e-learning centre to facilities in Grand Bassa County.21

Board Member · Director of Partnerships

In 2026 I joined the Board of Plan International Switzerland.23 From September 2026 I am Director of Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation at FDI World Dental Federation in Geneva, bringing development, institutional leadership and partnership-building into global health, with a focus on advancing oral health worldwide.