2020 Activites 2020 was a year for reflection and rebuilding internally. Our activities largely consisted of refreshing our strategy, governance and operational structures. Specifically, we refreshed our short- and medium-term strategy, redefined our mission, vision, pillars and values, planned for 2021, updated internal policies and onboarded new trustees.
Meet our Trustees We’re delighted to introduce our trustees who are responsible for the overall governance, management and strategic oversight of Future of Ghana. Find out more about them below.
Bennard Owusu: Chair of Trustees Bennard Owusu is the Senior Partner at BWF Solicitors and specialises in immigration, nationality, child, family and matrimonial law. In addition, he has expertise in general civil litigation including dispute resolution. Bennard is a member of the Ghana Bar Association and a specialist in Ghanaian law including customary law and marriages, inheritance, children, registration of mirror orders, international reciprocal agreements, land and real estate. Bennard has 28 years’ experience in all aspects of UK immigration and nationality law and related human rights work and leads a team of advisors. His expertise covers the full spectrum of business, investor and employment related immigration as well as personal immigration matters. Bennard is a member of the Law Society’s Family and Immigration Law Accreditation Scheme and Resolution First for Family. He is an accredited Senior Caseworker under the Solicitors Regulation Authority Accreditation Scheme (Immigration & Asylum Accreditation Scheme (IAAS)). He is also a Director at Lintas MullenLowe Accra (part of the Advantage Group), which is the oldest marketing and integrated communications agency in Ghana, established in 1927.
Doreen Thompson Addo: Secretary Doreen is a qualified Career Development and Wellbeing Coach with over 15 years’ experience in the not-for-profit sector. She started her career in the voluntary sector, working for one the country's largest Volunteer Centres and cofounding its award-winning corporate volunteering arm. As Head of Programmes at the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust she established a portfolio of projects for young people and the local community, gaining recognition of her programmes from the likes of Boris Johnson and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. She currently works full time at Royal Holloway University as a Careers Consultant, in addition to running a career coaching and voice-over business. Outside of work Doreen spends time exploring the great outdoors and encouraging others in the black community to do the same through her social media platform Melanin Outdoors. Doreen is our longest serving Trustee, having joined the board since November 2017.
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Future of Ghana Five Year Report: 2015-2020
