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PROFILES OF GHANA NATIONAL GOVERNING COUNCIL MEMBERS OF APRM

MS. GLORIA OFORI-BOADU
MEMBER

Ms. Gloria Ofori-Boadu was born on the 9th of April 1964. She is a Barrister and Solicitor and an advocate for the fair treatment and development of women.

Ms. Ofori-Boadu graduated from the University of Ghana in 1987 with BA (Hons.) Law and Political Science. She took her professional Law studies at the Ghana School of Law, graduated in October 1990 and was admitted to the Ghana Bar the same year. In 1995 and 1996, Ms. Ofori-Boadu studied at the Georgetown University Law Centre, Washington DC, for her Master of Laws (L.L.M.). She also possesses a Professional Banking qualification from the Chartered Institute of Bankers, England and Wales and a Diploma from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Lund in Sweden.

Between June and December 1996, Ms. Ofori-Boadu was a Congressional Fellow with the 1st District N.C. in the U.S. House of Representatives, Washington D.C. Prior to this date, she worked as a Legal Practitioner (Family Law, Business and Commercial Law) with Tetteh and Co., Accra, and also as a Legal Adviser and Secretary at the National Investment Bank for eleven years (1983-1994). She was a Consultant and Trainer on "Principles of Banking Law" for Ghana Institute of Bankers, "Law Relating to Banking Services" for National Investment Bank and "Business, Company and Partnership Law" for the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

From March 1999 to June 2003, Ms. Ofori-Boadu was the Executive Director of the Ghana branch of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-GHANA). Through her hard work the public image of FIDA-Ghana as a credible advocacy organisation influencing national policy has been established. In addition, within six months of her tenure as Executive Director, she substantially increased support to FIDA-Ghana via funding from donors, private companies and indivi-duals. She is the founder and current President of Women Assistance and Business Association (WABA), a local NGO established in June 1996 to provide skills training, micro-credit functional education on civic, human rights and legal literacy education, as well as leadership skills to beneficiaries of the association. 

Ms. Ofori-Boadu has been engaged in various community service activities and is now the elected Assembly-member for the Adenta Frafraha in the Tema Municipal Assembly. She has also served as a Resource Person for various seminars and workshops, including "Women Parliamentarians and the Media," "Adolescent Reproductive Health Orientation" and a seminar on "Child Maintenance, Problems and Issues of Teenage Mothers".  In addition, she has served on a number of National Boards and assignments, including membership of the Advisory Committee of the President of Ghana on the May 9th Accra Sports Stadium Disaster, the Revenue Agencies Governing Board of Ghana and the National African Peer Review Mechanism Governing Council.

Besides plays and poetry she has written, her recent publications are: "The Rights of the Ghanaian Child," "FIDA Handbook on Domestic Violence," "The Rights of the Ghanaian Woman" and "Election Campaign and Fundraising Strategies."

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