The Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC), the watchdog responsible for the prudent management and use of oil revenues, has been appointed by Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Aldeifio-Shandorff, representative of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) Selected. new chairman.
She was unanimously elected Chair by the members of the Accountability Committee at their meeting on Tuesday, October 25, 2023. She succeeds Professor Kwame Adumfrimpong.
Professor Emeritus Aldaifio Schandorff is the first woman to be elected as chairperson of PIAC since its establishment, and her term will be one year.
Professor Emeritus Aldaifio-Schandorf expressed her gratitude to the members of the committee for accepting her selection and for the confidence they had in her.
He urged members to cooperate and work as a team to fulfill PIAC’s mission of ensuring efficient and prudent management and use of oil revenues.
She also used the opportunity to pay glowing tribute to the immediate past members of the Committee for their role in fulfilling PIAC’s mission.
Professor Emeritus Elizabeth Aldaifio-Schandorf has had a distinguished academic career and is a pioneer in many fields.
Her interests and commitments began in the early 1970s and have been nurtured over more than 50 years through teaching, research, mentoring, consulting services, and community assistance programs.
She is also a geographer, environmental advisor, rural energy systems expert and development consultant.
She is also passionate about family and gender research/analysis, women’s empowerment and advocacy.
At the same meeting, Odefuo Amoakwa Buadu VIII, an Omanhe person from the Breman-Asikuma Traditional Area in the Central Region and representative of the National House of Chiefs, was elected Vice-Chairman for a one-year term. He is also the Chairman of the Central Regional House of Chiefs.
Odifuo Amoaakwa Buadu, who was appointed as Paramount Chief in 2009, was a student at St. Augustine’s University in Cape Coast and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering. He holds an Executive MBA from the University of Ghana Business School and a Chieftaincy Diploma from the Otumfuo His Center for Traditional Leadership at the Accra University of Professional Studies (UPSA).
Odeefuo has strong engineering and business management experience, as well as the ability to build a shared vision and lead teams of professionals to new levels of success in a competitive environment. He has over 11 years of chieftainship experience and a proven track record of achieving unity, peace and progress in traditional areas.
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