Nana Afadzinu

Biography

Nana Afadzinu, Executive Director of the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), has worked with and within the civil society sector for the past 24 years and is a passionate advocate for sustainable development in Africa with the full participation of an effective, efficient, influential and sustainable civil society. Her passion for leading change and challenging the Status Quo on the continent, recently landed her a place on the Avance Media 2020 100 Most Influential African Women List.

Nana is a lawyer by profession and has worked on areas of governance, human rights, philanthropy and capacity development with national, international, continental and regional organisations in Africa.She currently serves on the Management Committee of the University of Ghana School of Law, the AfDB-CSO Committee, the Governing Council of YALI-RLC, the Star Ghana Foundation, OXFAM GB, and Resource Alliance Boards.