Naana Agyemang-Mensah

Country Director, The Hunger Project, Ghana

Dr Naana Agyemang-Mensah joined The Hunger Project in Ghana as Country Director in January 2000. Prior to that, she worked with the Ghanaian National Council on Women and Development (NCWD).

Dr Agyemang-Mensah has served as a consultant to FAO, World Bank, WHO and the Ministry of Finance. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the West Africa Sub-regional Agricultural Research Network of the Council of Ministers of Agriculture (REPA) and a member of Ghana’s National Committee on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Dr Agyemang-Mensah received her BA in English, Sociology and Education from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, her M.A. in Agency (Mental health) Counselling from Michigan State University and her PhD in Adult/Non-formal Education with a minor in Community Development/Women in Development from Michigan State University.

She received the Thoman Fellowship for Hunger and Famine Prevention at the Michigan State University in 1985. Her Dissertation research was on the nature and extent of rural women’s participation in food processing activities in Ghana.