Amb. Mercy Bampo Addo | |
|---|---|
| Ghana High Commissioner to Malta | |
| Assumed office July 2017 | |
| President | Nana Akufo-Addo |
| Preceded by | Kenneth Enos Kofi Tachie [1] |
| Succeeded by | Barbara Akuorkor Benisa |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ghana |
| Political party | New Patriotic Party |
Mercy Bampo Addo is a Ghanaian diplomat and a member of the New Patriotic Party of Ghana. [2] She is currently Ghana's High Commissioner to Malta,having assumed office in July 2017. [3] Between 2003 and 2009 she was the Deputy Minister and speech writer for the President of Ghana. [4]
She taught History and Current Affairs at the secondary school level for three and a half years. [5] [6] She worked as a Public Relations practitioner for over two decades first in Ghana’s Cocoa Industry and later,at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. [7]
Bampo graduated from the University of Ghana,Legon and holds a Master’s Degree in Governance and Leadership,a Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Communication as well as an Honours degree in History. [8]
In July 2017,Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo named Mercy Bampo Addo as Ghana's ambassador to Malta. She was among 22 other distinguished Ghanaians who were named to head various diplomatic missions in the world. [9] [10] [11] [12]
Mercy Bampo Addo is married to Prof. Samuel Tetteh Addo,a Professor of Geography of the University of Ghana. They have five children. [13] [14]