Prof. Mrs. Goski Alabi is an academic, a practitioner, and an accomplished entrepreneur with more than fifteen years of experience in academia, consultancy, and regulation. She combines and brings her experiences from the regulatory field, industry, consultancy, and academia to serve on several public, private, and international boards and committees. Prof. Goski is the dean of the Centre for International Education and Collaboration. Prior to that appointment, she served as the founding dean of the School of Graduate Studies from 2009 to 2016, at the University of Professional Studies, Accra, starting from zero to about one thousand students in six years with nine distinct graduate programs. She was also the coordinator of research from 2006 to 2009 at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA). Prof. Goski was also founder and the chief editor of the Journal of Business Research, an international peer-reviewed journal abstracted on the African Journals Online (AJOL) for seven years. She also proposed and facilitated the establishment of the Otumfuo Centre for Traditional Leadership and the Drolor Centre for Strategic Leadership, two leadership centers of excellence in Ghana.

Prof. Agnes Atiah Apusigah is a social critic and a feminist activist with extensive experience working with civil society organisations and donor agencies. Her work with civil society has centered on research, policy development, capacity-building, programming support, and project evaluation. She currently chairs the governing board of Afrikids Ghana and is also a member of the Network for Women’s Rights (NETRIGHT) in Ghana She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies with Curriculum Studies from the Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She has immensely contributed to research particularly in the areas of: political economy of African development, indigenous knowledge systems, gender studies, and educational policy and reforms. Her recent publications include Bridging Worlds, Teacher Professionalism and Educational Quality in Ghana (with LA Alagbela) and Women’s Movement and Political Change in West Africa.

Lawyer Joyce Bawa Mogtari earned a degree in Law in 1997 from Holborn College, University of London and was called to the Ghana Bar in 2000. She holds a Master’s in Maritime Law from the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) in Malta, where she received an IMO Legal Committee Chairman’s Award for Best Overall Performance in International Transport Law. Before joining the Ministry in 2013, she was the Head of the Legal Unit of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority. Joyce is a member of the African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA), the Women in International Shipping and Trade Association, (WISTA) and the Ghana State Alumni.

Justice Agbezuge possess over fourteen years of experience in project management mainly around democracy and governance. He has worked with the AU-GIZ project on Managing Peace and Security in Africa Program in Addis Ababa Ethiopia through the Institute for Peace and Security Studies. He also worked with the UNDP-Ghana office for five years where he collaborated with actors in Ghana’s Peace Architecture especially the National and Regional Peace Councils to promote peace in Ghana. Mr. Agbezuge worked closely with the Peace Council in the resuscitation of the Bawku Inter-Ethnic Peace Committee as well as the mediation of conflicts in Bimbilla and Yendi. His work with USAID-West Africa has seen him provide technical advice to relevant stakeholders on matters relating to the spread of violent extremism with specific focus on the coastal states in West Africa (Ghana, Togo, Guinea, Benin and Cote d’Ivoire) and the Liptako-Gourma region (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger).

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The Executive Director and founder of AFCSOs has over five years’ working experience in advocating for venerable group (women, children and girls). She is the Executive Director for African Center for Women in Politics (ACWP) which is also her nominating organization into the Alliance. She also works as the Executive Secretary for Coalition of CSOs Against Political Vigilantism advancing the need for political parties to avoid all forms of electoral violence. 

She has also worked in corporate organization as HR and Administrative manager. 

Alimatu Issahak is a PhD research student Health Policy and Management at the school of Public Health at University of Ghana. She holds a Masters in Science degree in Oil and Gas Management from Coventry University and a professional certificate from Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (IOSH). She is also an alumni of the FES leadership programme.  

Irene-Nora is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Settlements Studies. She has over a decade experience in development research and experience in designing and managing development programmes for non-profit organisations, government and private sectors. She also has experience in public policy analysis, impact evaluation and micro-data analysis in a developing context and has worked extensively with household surveys and administrative databases design and implementation of M&E Systems. Irene has a broad but in-depth experience of donor and governmental relations and working at community and national policy level.

Prior to joining the Centre, Irene has worked as the Country Lead at The Khana Group and Project Officer at Participatory Development Associates in Accra. Irene has completed a wide range of consultancy assignments and has held various positions including National Consultant, Project Coordinator, Team Lead, Technical Advisor, Principal Researcher and Trainer. She has carried out assignments for the United Nations (UNICEF, UNODC), DFID, NORC and several national, regional and local governments nationwide.
 
Irene has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cape Coast.

Ayisha Kamarre-Deen is a dedicated and self - motivated professional who can work under any circumstance as a result of my education, training and work experience.

She had both her first and second degree in (Accounting and Finance) and (Accounting and Taxation) respectively from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Adminstration (GIMPA).

She is also a student of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAG) and writing her final part.

Ayisha has many years of work experience in various field of endeavors such as in the Airline Industry, Petroleum, Road Construction, Real Estates, Security Service, Automobile and School set up.

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She has over ten years experience as gender consultant in both local and international organisations in Ghana.
She also served as a gender consultant for the Ministry of Women, children and Social Protection.