Bridget Menyeh is an energy and international development consultant with expertise and research interests in energy access, financing of renewable energy, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

She holds a PhD in Energy and Environmental Economics from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland. Her PhD involved the use of discrete choice analysis for studying preferences for environmental goods and services.

Prior to enrolling on the CEPMLP PhD programme, she worked as a Consultant for SNV Netherlands Development Organization in Accra, Ghana on projects involving climate innovation, clean cookstove, REDD+ as well as other alternative livelihood improvement projects. More recently, she has been involved in alternative finance research working with the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, the University of Cambridge and on the CrowdFundRes Horizon 2020 project, funded by the European Union. She completed her master’s degree in energy and the environment from Lancaster University, United Kingdom, and a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Ghana, Legon.

Dr. Gordon Terkpeh Sabutey is a Senior Lecturer, School of Business and Law, University for Development Studies (.UDS.), Wa Campus, Ghana; as well as Adjunct Lecturer of the Institute of Distance Learning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (.KNUST.), Kumasi, Ghana; KNUTSFORD University College, Legon, Accra. He is also the External Examiner for Jackson Educational Complex (.JEC.), Teacher Training Department, Ghana. He is a Resource Person to renowned organizations. Dr. Sabutey holds degrees in PhD & MPhil in Art Education, MBA in Marketing & Corporate Strategy, and B.A. in Industrial Art from KNUST. His areas of specialization and research interest (.lecturing.) are Marketing Management & Planning, International Marketing, International Business, Corporate Strategy and Policy, Services Marketing & Customer Management, E-Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Management of NGOs, Innovation, Aesthetics & Criticism of Art as well as Psychology & Therapy of Art. He lectures several courses at the post graduate and undergraduate levels as well as successfully supervised both post graduate and under graduate research works, UDS, KNUST and KNUTSFORD University College. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Economists of Ghana (.ICEG.). Dr. Sabutey is also a member of other committees in the University.

Faustina Ethel Ametepe is Grants & Contracts Manager with eHealth Africa in Sierra Leone. She has over 15 years’ professional experience with multiple donor project management. Prior to her current position she worked with Chemonics International Inc, on a USAID funded Ghana Feed the Future Agricultural Policy Support Project and Management Systems International (Local Governance and Decentralization Program), also a- USAID sponsored project.

In her current role, she is responsible for managing and ensuring the effective and efficient administration of the eHealth Africa (eHA) country office grants portfolio (USAID, CDC, DFID, Bill and Melinda Gates) throughout the entire award life-cycle, from pre-award to closeout, to ensure compliance with eHA, donor, and legal requirements as well as high performance in line with programmatic goals. Overall responsibility is to provide policy guidance and interpretation for staff as well as grantees and ensure adherence to grants management policies.

She also administers sub awards through proposal solicitation, evaluation of grant proposals and budgets and assists technical staff and beneficiary applicants in revising their proposals as appropriate. She also identifies training need for grantees and organize training workshop on best financial management and administrative procedure. She undertakes follow up monitoring of the financial and project performance of grantees, in ensuring compliance with grant terms and obligations, to ensure the fulfilment of anticipated grant-supported activities.

She has great organizational, interpersonal and communication skill, a well-organized lady who holds honesty and integrity in high regards and strives to achieve transparency in her work. Very innovative personnel who is always open to new ideals, and have strong potential for growth and highly motivated by constant progress. Faustina is a Chartered Accountant (ACCA) and holds Master of Science in Strategic Management from Atlantic International University. She is also holds a BSc in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University

Richard Kwofie has over 10years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He started his career in Millicom Ghana Limited, operators of Tigo with roles in Core Network Planning and Value-Added Services Development. He then moved to Vodafone Ghana as Solutions Architect.

He holds a degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi and an EMBA (Project Management option) from the University of Ghana Business School, Legon. He also has a Diploma in Advance Core Network Planning. A member of the Institute of ICT Professionals.

Richard is an ardent believer in helping underprivileged people and volunteers his time to assist Vodafone Foundation on various projects.

Akua Amoa Okyere-Nyako has a master’s degree in Environment and Energy Management. She has over 7 years’ experience in gender, climate change and renewable energy. She has worked on a number of projects with ABANTU for Development, SNV Netherlands Development Organization, Environmental Protection Agency and United Nations Development.

As a renewable energy expert, she has been involved in managing clean cooking, solar PV and other renewable energy interventions in various communities. She has also been involved in review of national policies on climate change and gender. She has trained project staff, private and government institutions on gender and renewable energy.

Some of her recent works include Developing a country specific gender mainstreaming toolkit to facilitate mainstreaming of gender into nationally determined contributions (NDCs) implementation in Ghana, conducting end of project evaluation on the Stepping up Advocacy for the Passage of the Affirmative Action Act in Ghana and analyzing gendered enterprise markets in the fisheries sector of Ghana.

An experienced Chartered Accountant with over 12 years of expertise in international development and the private sector specifically in Grants Management and Operations, Financial Administration, Donor Accounting and Procurement. Solomon is well versed in multi-donor funded projects reporting and compliance requirements including both Institutional and Corporate Donors. He has provided strong technical assistance, conducted pre-audits and financial compliance audit and reviews for all of JA Africa’s Barclays Bank, Citi Foundation, Abraaj Group, Bechtel and other Donors funded projects located in Botswana, Burkina-Faso, Gabon, Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and JA Africa Regional Operating Center while working as Regional Finance Officer, Regional Grants Manager and Regional Finance and Operation Manager for JA Africa. Before joining JA Africa, Solomon worked as Head of Finance for Organization for Livelihood Enhancement Services (.OLIVES.) - a non-governmental, not-for-profit making organization. Prior to this, Solomon worked in various capacities in the finance department of OIC International including Finance Officer, Senior Finance Officer and Acting Finance Manager. Mr. Faibil also worked as Finance Officer for MDM Pty – a mining construction company. Solomon has Master of Science in Financial Management from the Amity University of India. Mr. Faibil is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (.ICA.) – Ghana and International Institute of Certified Forensic Accountants (.IICFA.) USA.