Prof. Esi Awuah is currently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Sunyani, Ghana and Professor of Environmental Health, Water and Sanitation at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. Awuah holds a PhD in Wastewater Treatment (Sanitary Engineering) from the UNESCO Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands, an MSc in Environmental Science from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry at the State University of New York, USA and a BSc in Biological Sciences from KNUST. Awuah has been Head of the Civil Engineering Department and Dean of the Faculty of Civil and Geomatic Engineering at KNUST. She is a member of several boards including Water Aid Ghana.
Awuah was elected as OWSD Executive Board Member for Africa in 2010 and re-elected in 2016. She has been an active member of OWSD since 1991.
I intend to achieve this by engaging in the following activities: Promotion of quality science education through advocacy in the OWSD Africa Region; OWSD awareness creation; Getting girls interested in Science and Mathematics at their tender ages through the creation of student chapters; Development of innovative career counseling programmes for emerging young scientists; Continuous professional development programs such as scientific and proposal writing; Development of research skills and capacity building programmes for women scientists in each member country; Networking with other sister institutions for practical training in the less endowed institutions; Enhance joint research programs; Development and promotion of mentoring programmes for emerging young female scientists; Resource mobilization to promote the programs of OWSD.