Dr Rose Mensah-Kutin (born 22 November 1955) is a

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gender advocate and professional journalist. As of October 2016, she is the West Africa Regional director for

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Early life

She was born and raised in Brofoyedru, a town in the

Adansi South district Adansi South District is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Originally it was created from parts of two former districts on 17 February 2004: Adansi West District and Adansi East District; thus the remaining parts had been ...

of the

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of Ghana, to a cocoa and coffee farmer.

Education

Dr Mensah-Kutin was once a student of Brofoyedru Middle and United Methodist Middle Schools. She completed Accra Girls Secondary School and later went to Aggrey Memorial Zion Secondary School for her sixth-form education. She completed a bachelor's degree in English and History 1978 at

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...

and returned to do master's degree in Mass Communication from the same university in the following year. She holds a second master's degree from the

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, and a PhD in Gender and Energy Studies from the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

, UK.

Career

Earlier on in her career, she worked as an assistant editor for ''

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'' in Ghana shortly after she co-founded Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana in 1999. She was one time Social Impact Assessment officer at Ghana's Ministry of Mines and Energy. She sits on the boards of The Netherlands-based ''International Gender and Energy Network (ENERGIA)'' and ''African Women Development Fund'' in

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. She is currently the West Africa Regional director for

, an international non-governmental organisation that empowers women by giving leadership training in sustainable development.

Personal life

She is married to Professor Kwame Karikari with four children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mensah-Kutin, Rose Living people 1955 births Ghanaian women activists Accra Girls Senior High School alumni