Marufatu Abiola Bawuah (born 25 September 1968) is a Ghanaian finance and businesswoman. As of 2014, she became the managing director/chief executive officer of United Bank for Africa, making her the first woman to have held that position. She has won several awards for her work which includes the 2016 Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana Marketing Woman of the Year and the Finance Personality of the Year Award at the Ghana Accountancy and Finance.[1][2][3][4][5]
In the area of leadership, she holds several qualifications from Harvard Business School, Columbia, University of New York, INSEAD and Institut Villa Pierrefeu in Switzerland.[8][9][10][5]
Career
She is currently the regional chief executive officer (CEO) of United Bank for Africa, in charge of six countries comprising Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone.[2][11] Prior to that, she worked with Standard Chartered Bank as a Business Relationship Officer, CAL Bank as a relationship manager, the Strategic African Securities as an authorised dealing broker, and with the then Bentsi-Enchi and Letsa (now Bentsi-Enchil, Letsa and Ankomah) law firm as an investment officer.[7][3][8][9] In January 2023, Abiola Bawuah becomes the first female CEO of UBA Africa..
Works
Bawuah authored Chosen from the Darkness which is a memoir[6]
She founded a non-profit organization called Aboala Bawuah Foundation [12]
Achievements and awards
1n 2016, she was honoured the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) Marketing Woman of the Year Award[10][13][14][15]
She won the 2016 Finance Personality of the Year Award at the Ghana Accountancy and Finance.
Named as one of Africa's 50 Influential Women in business by the African Report in July 2018
She awarded the EMY Awards Woman of the Year 2020[16]
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