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Chair

Her Excellency Ms Ursula Owusu-Ekuful (MP)

Minister for Communications and Digitalisation

Ursula Owusu-Ekuful (MP) is Ghana’s Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, and serves as the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West Constituency within the Greater Accra Region in Ghana.  Before her appointment as the Minister for Communications in 2017, Ms Owusu-Ekuful was a Managing Consultant with N. U. Consult Legal – Governance and Gender Consultants. She then served as the Chairperson of the Social Development Sector Committee, a committee responsible for the development of policy interventions for women, children, persons with disability, the aged and all social intervention policies and programmes for the NPP 2016 manifesto.

She is also a member of the ITU Broadband Commission in addition to holding the following roles:

  • a lawyer and a member of the Ghana Bar Association;
  • an Executive Member of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Ghana; and
  • a member of the African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA), Ghana.

Minister Owusu-Ekuful holds a Master’s degree in Conflict, Peace and Security from the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre. She also co-chaired the Africa Union/European Union Digital Economy Task Force which was launched in 2018.

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