Members of the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC) have elected Professor Emeritus Elizabeth Aldeifio-Shandorff, representative of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS), as its new chairperson.
On Tuesday, October 25, 2023, the first female regulator, responsible for the prudent management and use of oil revenues, was unanimously elected.
She will succeed Professor Kwame Adom Frimpong and will serve a one-year term.
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 a 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 Diploma of Chieftaincy from the Otumfuo Center for Traditional Leadership at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (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 chieftaincy experience and a proven track record of achieving unity, peace and progress in traditional areas.
Other members of the committee include Mr. Sena Dake, representative of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ghana (ICAG), Mr. Nana Kwaku Daye (Mr. Lunsford Tetteh), representative of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), and Civil Society (CSO) Representative Richard Elyma is included. / Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and Mr. Edward Yaw Afriyi on behalf of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) and the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI).
The others are Dr. Noble Ibrahim Azin Lartey representing the Muslim group, Mr. Constantine Kusedzi representing the Christian group, and Mr. Christopher Opoku Nyarko representing the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI). .
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