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Christabel E. Dadzie is an international development specialist with extensive experience
working on economic development across Africa, in Latin America and South Asia, leading
projects in education, gender, agriculture, trade, social protection and youth employment
with various international development organisations including United Nations entities and for
the USAID. Currently, she works with the World Bank as a Senior Social Protection Specialist,
leading the Ghana and The Gambia portfolios to promote social inclusion, youth
employment, and ending extreme poverty. Additionally, she has supported the Social
Protection and Jobs projects in Liberia in Sierra Leone. For the former, she co-led the
development and implementation of an adolescent girls’ program to revive businesses of
young women whose businesses were shut down as a result of the Ebola Virus Disease crisis.
Upon returning to Ghana from the US in 2010, she identified the need to promote Brain Gain
among young Ghanaian professionals by supporting the returnee transition. She therefore
founded Ahaspora Professionals Network (www.ahaspora.com), an organisation which
supports Ghanaian professionals who have lived or studied abroad and return home to
make a difference. Starting with 12 people in 2011, Ahaspora currently has over 3000
members, connecting home and abroad both professionally and socially. Ahaspora has a
flagship mentoring program for high school students across Ghana as its give-back initiative
which has reached over 1000 students to date. Christabel is a Board Member of Emerging
Public Leaders organisation and the Databank Foundation, on the Management team and
a mentor for the Moremi young African women leadership initiative, and a member of the
Women’s Advisory Board of The College of Wooster in Ohio, where she earned a Bachelors’
Degree in International Relations. She also has a Masters’ Degree in International Affairs from
Columbia University.
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