Georgette Barnes Sakyi-Addo

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Georgette Barnes Sakyi-Addo
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Barnes Sakyi-Addo at a UQ event:2019-Ghana [1]
President of[[Association of Women In Mining Africa [2] ]]
Assumed office
28 November 2019 [3]
OccupationMining Entrepreneur
Gender Advocate

Georgette Barnes Sakyi-Addo is a Ghanaian entrepreneur in the mining industry. [7] She is the founder and executive director of Georgette Barnes Ltd., a Ghanaian drilling and mining supplies company based in Ghana. [8]

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Education

She holds a BA in French and Linguistics, and a Graduate Diploma in Communications from the University of Ghana. [9] She was awarded an honorary DSc by the University of Mines and Technology. [10]

Career

Accra Mining Network

When the mining industry suffered a downturn in 2012, Sakyi-Addo co-founded the Accra Mining Network with Samuel Torkornoo, Raymond Kudzawu-D'Pherdd, and Joseph Djan Mamphey. [11] In 2015, she used that as a blueprint to form Women In Mining Ghana.[ citation needed ]

She is President of Women in Mining (WIM) Ghana and co-founder of the Accra Mining Network. [12] She was President of Accra Mining Network from 2015 to 2020. [13]

Women in Mining Ghana

In 2015 she established Women in Mining Ghana (WIM), as a limited company. Its main purpose is to serve as an advocacy body for women working in the mining sector (Industry, Academia and Government) by offering training, mentorship, networking and research projects. She is its current President. [14]

Association of Women in Mining in Africa (AWIMA)

In November 2019, she was elected as the president of the Association of Women In Mining Africa (AWIMA). [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

Contemporary activities

Sakyi-Addo was featured among Women In Mining in Nigeria and the subregion: a monograph with interviews by Fatima Ibrahim Maikore. [21] Sakyi-Addo was also a speaker at the 2022 EU-African Union Business Forum. [22] She was a speaker at the Fire Site Chat of the Kenyan Gem and Jewelry Fair. [23] She gave the opening remarks at the DRC Africa Business Forum 2021 on the social, environmental and governance challenges of battery-related industrial activities. The forum looked at fostering the development of battery, electric vehicle and renewable energy, industry value chain and market in Africa. [24]

She was one of the judges of the Amazon Challenge of Artisanal Mining Challenge in 2020. Conservation X Labs led this event, to make artisanal mining more responsible for people and the planet. [25] The winners were Jeffrey Beyer, Charles Espinosa, Alejandra Laina, Itai Mutemeri, and Marcello Veiga. [26]

Awards and honors

Publications

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