Elsie Awadzi

Ms. Elsie Addo Awadzi is a legal, governance, and international finance professional with 25 years of experience working in Ghana and internationally. She is currently the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana.

Before her appointment as Deputy Governor, she was Senior Counsel of the IMF’s Legal Department (Financial and Fiscal Law Unit) where she worked for six years advising IMF member country authorities (mostly Finance Ministries and Central Banks) in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East, on banking sector regulatory reforms, banking sector crisis management, G20 member countries’ financial stability assessments, and public financial management reforms. She also taught and directed courses for IMF member-country officials in Washington D.C. and in IMF regional training centres in Vienna (Austria), Mauritius, and Singapore. Before joining the IMF in 2012, Ms. Addo Awadzi was a two-term (six years in total) Commissioner of Ghana’s Securities and Exchange Commission and in that role, was active in formulating policies and rules to regulate Ghana’s then-nascent capital market. She was called to the Ghana Bar in April 1996 and thereafter worked with major law firms in Ghana, in banking, and in financial sector reforms. She holds academic qualifications in law, finance, and international economic law from Georgetown University Law Center, Ghana School of Law, University of Ghana Business School, and University of Ghana Faculty of Law. She holds Honorary Fellowships awarded by the Chartered Institute of Bankers (Ghana) and the Institute of Directors (Ghana) in recognition of her contributions to Ghana’s banking sector and corporate Governance in Ghana respectively.