Digital access is an education issue.

Bismarck Emmanuel Badu is a Chartered Management Accountant with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK, and holds an MSc in Accounting and Finance from London South Bank University. He is also an Associate Member of the Chartered Management Institute, UK, and has also pursued an MA in Conflict, Peace and Security at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre.

With over 20 years of leadership experience across the UK and West Africa, Mr. Badu has served as Director of Graphic Communications Group, Bodland Farms Limited and Kaat Services Limited. He is also the CEO of Supreme Concept Company Limited, a leading marketing, printing, and market research firm in Ghana that he founded and grew from scratch into an award-winning company.

A builder of institutions, he has established two newspapers, including the weekly Liberia Standard and Whatsup for Ghanaian tertiary students. His international and operational experience includes roles with the Public Trust Office in London, DPP Group International, and as Head of Operations at Afrimedia International Limited, where he expanded West Africa Magazine across the sub-region.

Currently, Mr. Badu is the Founder and Executive Director of Next-Gen Digital Learning Foundation, a newly registered NGO with the tagline: “Empowering Every Student to Succeed Through Technology.” The Foundation is committed to improving educational access and digital learning for underserved communities in Ghana and beyond by providing digital tools, learning resources, and teacher capacity-building programmes that prepare students for the future.

• Institution building
• Management accounting
• Marketing and communications
• Operations across the UK and West Africa
• Conflict, peace and security

MacGeorge Gyekye Gyimah is a Chartered Management Accountant with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK. He is a Fellow of the same institute. He also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Finance from the University of Hull, UK.

Mr Gyimah has over 30 years of experience in accounting and financial management across the UK and West Africa. Mr Gyimah has served as an auditor with the Audit Service, Ghana. He has also worked as an accountant with N Ali and Co Accountancy, UK, and Kwame Asante and Associates Chartered Accountants, Accra, Ghana.

Mr MacGeorge Gyimah has also worked for the British Council, Accra, Ghana, as Finance and Resources Manager and also served as the Finance Manager for the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Accra, Ghana. Mr Gyimah was the treasurer for Scripture Union Ghana, a Christian NGO, for more than a decade.

Currently, he is a Director and Financial Controller for Next-Gen Digital Learning Foundation, a newly registered NGO with the tagline: “Empowering Every Student to Succeed Through Technology.” The Foundation is committed to improving educational access and digital learning for underserved communities in Ghana and beyond by providing digital tools, learning resources, and teacher capacity-building programmes that prepare students for the future.

• Financial management
• Audit and assurance
• Nonprofit finance and controls
• Donor-funded programme finance

Mrs. Lucy B. Ofori-Ayeh, PhD is the Director of Operations at the University of Ghana Medical Centre Ltd. (UGMC). Before UGMC, she was the Director of Academic Affairs at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS). Prior to that, she was the Administrative Secretary of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), UG.

She also served as Administrator in various sections of the University of Ghana for 11 years. Mrs. Ofori-Ayeh was the Administrator of the Evidence 4 Action project and the Project Manager / Snr. Assistant Registrar, Ethics and Research Management Project at the School of Public Health, UG. Between 1998 to 2002, she was the Programmes and Initiatives Consultant at the Tromsø City Council (Refugee and Immigration Office) in Norway.

Her expertise spans Organisational Performance and Analysis, Leadership, Higher Education Management, Health Policy, Planning and Management, Supply Chain Management, Human Resource Management, Culture and Development, Gender and Children's Issues. She is a Fellow of the International Association of People and Performance Development (IAPPD), and a Member of the Institute of Directors (MIoD), Ghana.

• Organisational performance and analysis
• Leadership
• Higher education management
• Health policy, planning and management
• Supply chain management
• Human resource management
• Culture and development
• Gender and children's issues