UK-Ghana Digital Conference

Samuel Brooksworth is a British-Ghanaian businessman, former candidate on the UK's version of The Apprentice, and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Remoteli. Remoteli was founded in September 2020 and is a tech-led outsourcing business supporting organisations globally. The company’s headquarters is in the UK, with an office in the heart of Accra, Ghana with over 60 staff. Remoteli also has staff working from Lithuania, Ireland, Canada and rapidly expanding. The company’s vision is to eventually employ 1,000,000 people on the continent of Africa as a remote and dedicated workforce supporting businesses around the world.

Dr Bawumia was the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank (Bank of Ghana) until he was selected as the Presidential Running Mate by current President Nana Akufo-Addo in 2008. He received a Chartered Institute of Bankers Diploma (A.C.I.B) in the United Kingdom in 1984. Bawumia spent his undergraduate years at University of Buckingham, UK and graduated with B.Sc. Economics (First Class Hons.). He received his Master’s in Economics from Oxford University in 1988 and PhD from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada in 1995. After graduating from Simon Fraser University in Canada, Dr. Bawumia worked for the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 1996 when he left for a teaching position with the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University in Texas, USA. After leaving Baylor University in 2000, Bawumia started his career at the Bank of Ghana as a Senior Economist. Between 2000 and his eventual resignation, Bawumia also held the position of Head of Monetary Policy and Financial Stability, Special Assistant to the Governor, Capital Market Committee Chairman, Monetary Policy Committee Member, and rose to become the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana.

Baroness Kate Hoey is the UK Trade Envoy to Ghana. Baroness Hoey has previously served as a Minister of State for the UK government, working first in the UK’s Home Office and the then Department of National Heritage, now the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Baroness also served as a regional MP for Vauxhall in London for 20 years.

Minister for Communications and Digitalisation.

Harriet Thompson is the British High Commissioner for Ghana, arriving in June 2021 and is also the Non-resident Ambassador Designate to Burkina Faso, Benin and Togo. Before her arrival in Ghana, Ms Thompson was the British Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, Nigeria where she led a large and growing mission covering the full spectrum of the UK’s work in the country, with a particular focus on commercial and economic development. She arrived in Lagos in July 2019 after nearly three years as British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria in Abuja.

Kwaku Appiah-Adu (PhD, FGA) is a Senior Advisor to the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Professor of Strategy, Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and former Dean of the Business School, Central University. Previously, he was Head of Policy Coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation at the Office of the President and Chairman of the Oil and Gas Technical Committee. Prof Appiah-Adu has also served on various boards in the public and private sectors. Currently, he is the Board Chairman of GLICO Pensions Trustee Company Ltd, Director of Vivo Energy Ghana Ltd and Switchback Developers Ltd.

Akosua Annobil is an award-winning communications professional and founder of Tech in Ghana, a high level industry platform for which she was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in the UK Tech Sector by the Financial Times. Launched in 2017, Tech in Ghana is best known for its high level conferences in London and Accra; convening local and international stakeholders including startups, SMEs and tech giants alongside Ghana’s most innovative local founders, policy makers, development organisations and investors. Its 9th edition will take place on Wednesday 15th June, during London Tech Week.

Appointed in March 2017, Mansa is currently Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Bank Ghana PLC. As the first female CEO of the publicly listed franchise in its 126-year history, she continues to demonstrate leadership in growth and diversity of its Management Team. She has been serving as the first female President of the Ghana Association of Banks since 2020. Known as an innovative leader with a breadth of corporate and investment banking, sustainable corporate governance, and risk management competencies, Mansa continues to transform the culture of Standard Chartered and the financial services sector. Mansa’s passion for making an impact, and belief that purpose is central to success, has sustained her service on Charities and Boards including the Ghana Petroleum Funds Investment Advisory Council, Zen Petroleum, and the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems Limited. In her dual role as Chief Executive and President of the Association of Banks, Mansa remains integral to several policy direction and business initiatives that support the development of Ghana’s financial markets, financial services, and digital economy. To advance Ghana’s financial inclusion agenda, she recently oversaw the collaborative effort by Ghana’s 24 Commercial banks and the national Payments Switch, to develop a banking industry electronic money transfer wallet.

Jo Ann Takyiwah Sackey is the Deputy Country Director and Business Engagement Lead at the UK Department for International Trade in Ghana. Jo Ann’s career began at Nestlé Central and West Africa Region LTD working as a Cost Analyst in the Costing Centre of Competence for Africa. She progressed to the Africa Centre for Energy Policy as a Senior Policy Analyst where she carried out energy sector related advocacy, research and policy analysis. In 2020, Jo Ann joined the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office as a Senior Prosperity Officer. In this role she was also secretary to the UK- Ghana Business Council (UKGBC). She also carried out relevant covered economic research and policy analysis across relevant sectors. Jo Ann has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and MSc. In Energy Economics and Policy. Jo is passionate about performing arts and is a member of the Roverman Productions theatre production company and Liezer-Legacy productions. She is an award winning actress.

Lawrence is an Executive Director in the Global Markets Division at Goldman Sachs. His job as a strat allows him to work as part of the business and also as an engineer. He leads a team that builds software for multiple asset classes in the firm. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Lawrence worked as a software engineer and consultant for a number of investment banks in London including Bank of New York Melon (BNY Melon), HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland (now Natwest Markets) and UniCredit. Lawrence finished with the best ever grade in the BSc. Computer Science course at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST, Ghana) in 2006. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship to do an MPhil in Computer Speech, Text & Internet Technology at the University of Cambridge (England), where he finished with a distinction.