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Executive Committee

President

Mawuko Afadzinu, APR

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Vice President

Henry Nii Dottey, APR

Henry Nii Dottey, APR is the Head of Marketing & Corporate Communications for United Bank for Africa (Ghana) Ltd.

Nii, worked at Media General Ghana and held various roles including; Managing News Editor of 3FM 92.7, Head of News Planning, coordinator of the 2016 Elections Project team, Head of News Online and, Group Head Corporate Affairs and CEO of 3Foundation, the CSR wing of the company.

He is a trained Journalist, Public Relations and a Marketing practitioner with experience in Journalism, Public Relations, Corporate Communications, Marketing and Branding across various private enterprises and mainstream government departments. He has previously worked for the Metropolitan Group of Companies made of Metropolitan Life Insurance, Metropolitan Health Insurance and Metropolitan Pensions Trust, Dominion University College, Students Loan Trust Fund (SLTF), the then VAT Service, now the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Citi FM, an Accra based radio station in various capacities.

He is also the Vice President of the Institute of Public Relations, Ghana having previously served as Secretary and deputy for a combined period of 10 years.
Mr. Dottey holds a Master of Business Administration, Marketing Option from the University of Ghana Business School, Legon and B.A. in Communication Studies from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, Accra. He is an accredited member of the Institute of Public Relations, Ghana.

He is a member of the Entity Tender committee of the Ministry of Information and an executive member of the National Engineering Coordinating Team (NECT).
In the church, Henry has served in various capacities. He was Organizer, Secretary and President of the YPG at Victory congregation and also served as Assistant Secretary of Adentan District and Ga Presbytery YPG. He was the first District Organizer (now District President) of the Fafraha District YPG.
Henry is also a former Vice President of the YAF at Victory Congregation.

He was for seven years the Captain of the 77th Accra Company of the Boys Brigade as the founding Captain. He is a JY teacher and served on a number of committees including the Multimedia committee, Radio Ministry, Ecumenical and Social Relations, Development and Social Services, Publications and tract committee etc.

He was a lead member for the establishment of the online radio (Voice of Victory) for Victory congregation. He was the chairman of the Education week committee for 2020 and also served on the 20th and 25th anniversary committees of Victory Congregation.

He is a presbyter serving on the 7th session of the Victory Congregation.

Treasurer

Afia Kwakyewah Drah, APR

Afia holds a Master’s Degree in Communication and Media studies specializing in Business and Organizational Communication and a Bachelor’s Degree in Television Production.

She is currently the Communications and Business Development Manager at The Trust hospital, where she handles internal and external communications for all three hospitals and six community clinics.

Afia is a creative thinker and an idea monger. A communications strategist in the areas of stakeholder engagement, digital and new media, Advocacy, fundraising and the development and management of Corporate Social responsibility projects.

Before her role at The Trust Hospital, she worked in Television and Creative /production Agency on a number of groundbreaking TV programmes, Documentaries and corporate videos.

She also developed content for brands like MTN Ghana, MTN Ghana Foundation, Unilever Ghana, Millennium Development Authority, First BanC, GCB Bank, Safe Water for Africa, JHU, FHI 360, Younger Educators Foundation, Diageo Plc, GGBL, Coca-Cola Equatorial, Care International, Fidelity Bank etc.

Afia is a screenwriter, media and communications content developer, corporate trainer in the areas of customer relations, events and communications.

Honorary Secretary

Shirley Tony Kum, APR

Shirley Tony Kum is an Accredited Public Relations Practitioner with 16 years of experience in communications and public relations in the media, mining and petroleum sectors. Prior to her current role at Vivo Energy Ghana (Shell licensee), Shirley had worked at Newmont Golden Ridge Limited, Stratcomm Africa Limited, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.

At Vivo Energy Ghana (Shell licensee) Shirley essentially built the Ghanaian leg of the Communications function, putting the essentials of a solid communications plan in place to position the company and its brand as one of the leaders in the Oil Marketing Industry championing standards, innovation and quality. With deep understanding of the role of communications and public relations in achieving business goals, Shirley is credited with a myriad of strategic communications initiatives that have won both group, national and international awards including the SABRE Awards Africa by African Public Relations Association and PRovoke Media.

Shirley has broad experience in public relations, stakeholder management, media management, sustainability, public participation, communication research, crisis communication, integrated marketing communications, digital communication, events management, traditional communication, community relations and partnership brokering.

In 2019 Shirley was elected as the Honorary Secretary of the Institute of Public Relations, Ghana. She is a Board member of the Ghana Netherlands Business and Culture Council and in April, 2021, was appointed a member of the Governing Council of the African University College of Communications, making her the youngest to serve on the University’s council.

Shirley is a recipient of the prestigious Head of State Award Scheme, (the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award in Ghana) under the former President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency, John Agyekum Kuffour for distinguished young leaders.

In 2017, Shirley was crowned the PR Discovery of the Year by the Institute of Public Relations, Ghana and named among the 6 Most Influential Women in PR, Ghana in 2017. In 2019 and 2020 respectively, Shirley was named among the top 10 PR Women in Ghana. She was crowned the Corporate Lady of the year at the 2020 Women’s Choice Africa Awards and named the Unsung Hero at the 2020 Ghana Oil and Gas Awards.

Shirley is an accredited member of the Institute of Public Relations, Ghana (IPR) and an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana.

Deputy Honorary Secretary

Asare Okae Anti, APR

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.