ACCRA

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

Our conference in Accra will be organised around two distinct panels which will try to take stock and discuss policies to bolster entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial training in Ghana. Both of those concepts aim at increasing the knowledge of entrepreneurship and its potential but also deepening key entrepreneurial skills, attitudes and competencies necessary to achieve entrepreneurial success. 

Yet, entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial training target two categories of people or stages of life. Entrepreneurial education occurs when students are attending academic institutions while entrepreneurial training focuses on people out of the educational systems (working  or unemployed people) looking forward to joining the entrepreneur world.

Entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial training therefore represents two different ecosystems with their respective stakeholders, trends and dynamics. Hence, our decision to organize two panels to better understand their organization in Ghana and discuss reforms capables of fostering their growth.  

PANELS & PANEL MEMBERS

Panel Discussion 1: Achieving entrepreneurship education in Ghana

The panel will help participants learn and appreciate how entrepreneurship education is taught in institutions across the country, but also governmental and private strategies underlying that sector and reforms capable of transforming students into successful entrepreneurs.

• PROF. ENOCH OPOKU ANTWI | Dean, Business Administration & Communication Arts, Academic City University College

• DR. FRED KYEI ASAMOAH | Pharmaceutical expert & Director General of the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET)

• DR. EMMANUEL NEWMAN | Director of Policy Planning and Research, Ghana Tertiary Education Commission

• MRS. AMINA SALIFU | Entrepreneur in agribusiness and AIMS Alumna

• DR-CHARLES AKOMEA BONSU | Dean, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, Kumasi Technical University

• DR. GEORGE ACHEAMPONG | Enterprise Lecturer & Researcher, Coordinator of the University of Ghana Business School Innovation and Incubation Hub (UGBSNEST)

Panel Discussion 2: Building strong entrepreneurial training in Ghana

This second panel will focus on entrepreneurship training in Ghana and the steps being taken to improve it across the country.    Panelists will also share ideas on what other innovative initiatives they can implement in the country.

• MRS. EMILY FIAGBEZI | Director of MEST Training Program

• MR. ABDUL LATIF IBN MOHAMMED | Business Development Specialist, Market Consultant and Expert with Ghana  Enterprise      Agency

• MRS. MAXINE REINDOFF-PARTEY | CEO Ghana Invest 

• MR. MAURICE CASCHINCO | Managing Director Kumasi Hive 

• MR. ANGE PASCAL KOUASSI | Country Representative Ghana & Liberia for Proparco