Gifty Osei Boakye Bingley is a former

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television journalist and news broadcaster who is currently a Communications and Strategy Executive. She formerly worked for

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Ghana, as the Director of Corporate Communications and Corporate Responsibility.

Education

Gifty graduated from the

Ghana Institute of Journalism The Ghana Institute of Journalism is a public university in Ghana. The institute has accreditation from the National Accreditation Board. History The Ghana Institute of Journalism was established on 16 October 1959 by Kwame Nkrumah, the first pre ...

(GIJ) with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's degree in

political communication Political communication is a subfield of communication and political science that is concerned with how information spreads and influences politics, policy makers, the news media, and citizens. Since the advent of the World Wide Web, the amount ...

from the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

and a master's degree in development management from the

Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) is a public co-educational university spread over four campuses (Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Takoradi) and made up of six schools, ten research centers located at Greenhill in Accra ...

(GIMPA). She is also a member of the Charted Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) in the United Kingdom.

Career

Gifty Osei Boakye Bingley is currently employed by the African Union as a Senior

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, where she holds the role of Head of Public Information and Senior Communications Officer. She joined

AMISOM The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) was a regional peacekeeping mission operated by the African Union with the approval of the United Nations Security Council. It was mandated to support transitional governmental structures, implem ...

, a multi-dimensional non-profit peace assistance operation mandated by the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU PSC) and the

United Nations Security Council The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the Organs of the United Nations, six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international security, international peace and security, recommending the admi ...

, in July 2018 .

At TV3

Gifty also spent ten years at TV3, where she worked her way up from Broadcast Journalist to Head of News and Deputy Editor-Assignments, producing and managing programming for the various news bulletins.

References

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