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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 social protection, youth employment, education, gender, agriculture, and trade with various international development organizations including United Nations and the USAID.
Currently, Christabel is a Senior Social Protection Specialist with the World Bank leading the Ethiopia Social Protection and Jobs portfolio. She previously led the Ghana and Gambia portfolios to promote social inclusion, youth employment, and ending extreme poverty, and also supported the Liberia and Sierra Leone programs.
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 founded Ahaspora Professionals Network (www.ahaspora.com), an organization which supports Africans in the Diaspora with their transition to the Ghana. 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 organization and the Databank Foundation. She is also on 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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