Amerley Ollennu Awua-Asamoa

Amerley Ollennu Awua-Asamoa (* 1956 ) is a Ghanaian manager, diplomat and ambassador to Denmark since 2017 with simultaneous accreditation in Sweden , Finland and Iceland .

Career

After the Mmofraturo Girls Boarding School in Kumasi , Amerley Ollennu attended the Apam Secondary School and the Kumasi Academy. She completed a bachelor's degree in law and sociology from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology . She earned her master's degree with a thesis on women and development at the Institute for Social Sciences in The Hague , a diploma from the College of Professional Management, Jersey and the Executive Master of Business Administration from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.

Ollennu Awua-Asamoa worked for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the field of human resources. There she was committed to equality and implemented the HIV workplace guideline. After various management and leadership positions, she was most recently General Manager in the field of strategic personnel management. The ECG staff elected her twice as President of the “Power Queens”.

Prior to her appointment as ambassador, Ollennu Awua-Asamoa was Executive Director of the Association of African Women in Development (AAWID), a Ghanaian non-governmental organization that works on the grassroots socio-economic empowerment of women. She was also the head of the women's department at the Africa office of the World Association of Societies for the United Nations (WFUNA) in Ghana.

Ollennu Awua-Asamoa was appointed Ambassador for the Nordic Countries in July 2017 by President Nana Akufo-Addo along with 21 other women and men. She handed the Danish Queen her certification on September 15, 2017.

Others

Ollennu Awua-Asamoa was co-founder and executive director of the Association of African Women in Development, vice president of the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) Ghana and developed health care projects in the Brong-Ahafo region . She is a member of the Ghana Institute of Management, the Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners (IHRMP) and the Network for Women's Rights (NETRIGHT) in Ghana.

family

Ollennu Awua-Asamoa is married and has three children. She was born in 1956 as the daughter of lawyer Nii Amaa Ollennu and Nana Afua Frema Busia, the former queen mother of the traditional Wenchi region. Her father was parliamentary president of the 2nd Republic of Ghana and after the end of the military government in August 1970 acted as head of state of the country.

Web links

• Ambassador's profile . (English, presentation on the website of your message)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ President Akufo-Addo appoints 22 more Ambassadors . (English, accessed September 18, 2019)

predecessor	Office	successor
Edith Hazel	Ghanaian Ambassador in Copenhagen ( Denmark ) September 15, 2017