New OSIWA Board Members
Akwasi Aidoo (Chair) - GHANA:
Akwasi Aidoo (Chair) is the founding Executive Director of TrustAfrica, a grantmaking foundation dedicated to advancing democratic governance and equitable development in Africa. Akwasi has extensive experience in philanthropy. His previous positions include regional program officer for West and Central Africa at IDRC, head of the Ford Foundation’s regional office for West Africa, and director of the Ford Foundation’s Special Initiative for Africa. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Resource Alliance. He also serves on the boards of several other nonprofit organizations, including the Fund for Global Human Rights, Global Greengrants Fund, International Beliefs and Values Institute, International Committee of the Council on Foundations, African Grantmakers’ Network; and previously served as a trustee of OXFAM America. Akwasi has taught at universities in Ghana, Tanzania, and the United States. He was educated in Ghana and the United States and received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Connecticut in 1985. He writes poetry and short stories in his spare time
Ayo Atsenuwa (Nigeria)
Ayo Atsenuwa is now Research Professor at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) and formerly Associate Professor and Head, Department of Public Law in the University of Lagos. She holds two Masters of Law degrees - LL.M Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of London, and LL.M Law in Development from the University of Warwick. She has over fifteen years of experience in the area of human rights advocacy and community development. She is the Executive Director of Legal Research and Resource Development Centre (LRRDC) a human rights non-governmental organization in Nigeria. She has authored numerous publications on gender, human rights, law and development. She is currently a member of the Board of the National Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS which is charged with coordinating the national response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. 
Camara Aminatou Barry (Guinea)
Camara Aminatou Barry – holds a PhD in Planning and Development Economics. She is a career professor and lectured at the University of Conakry. She has served as Director of the Agricultural Policy Coordination Office (1993-1994), Secretary General at the Ministry of Finance and later at the Ministry of Planning and Cooperation (1996-1999), and as National Coordinator of the Village Community Support Program (PACV) from 1999 to 2006. From 2008 to 2010, she served as Director of the Communication, Documentation and Records Bureau at the Office of the Prime Minister of Guinea. She also held top-level positions in the government as Minister of Tourism, the Hotel Industry and Crafts, and Minister of Postal Services and Telecommunications (2006-2007). She has 35 years of experience in the fields of development planning and management. She is a member of several civil society organizations, the Steering Committee of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Guinea and has since March 2010 been a member of the National Transition Commission (CNT). She is member of OSIWA Board since January 2011
T. Negbalee Warner - (Liberia)
Negbalee is a prominent member of Liberia civil society where he has held several leadership positions, including President of the Liberian National Students Union (LINSU), which is a statutory national umbrella organization of students and student governments in Liberia. Mr. Warner presently serves as member of the international Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives (EITI), the Board of directors of the Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia (CENTAL)- and the Federation of Liberian Youth (FLY). He also served the Liberian public sector in a number of managerial positions at the Liberia Telecommunications Corporation and the Central Bank of Liberia as well the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI). During his tenure as the first Head of Secretariat of LEITI, Liberia was honored by the EITI Board as the best EITI implementing country, and the country subsequently became the second EITI compliant country in the world. Mr. Warner is an Assistant Professor of law at the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia and is also engaged in private legal practice. He holds a B.Sc (Economics) with honors and an LL.B with honors from the University of Liberia, as well as an LL.M from the Cornell Law School. He is a member of the Liberian Supreme Court Bar, the Liberia National Bar, and the New York Bar. 
Tennyson Williams - (Sierra Leone)
Tennyson Williams is the International Director of ActionAid International responsible for West and Central Africa. He provides leadership and management support and supervision to the staff and teams in West and Central Africa where ActionAid works in order to achieve the mission, goals and objectives of ActionAid International (AAI). Tennyson has over twelve years of experience in the development sector with UNHCR, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi and ActionAid International Sierra Leone. As Country Director for ActionAid Sierra Leone, he led the country programme to Associate status in June 2008, by establishing its first national board as part of ActionAid International’s overarching internationalisation agenda. Tennyson also led the development of the ActionAid International Sierra Leone country strategy paper and contributed to the positioning of Sierra Leone’s development agenda at national and international levels. He was involved in a number of research and consultancy projects for the DFID and the Sierra Leone Civil Society, where he played a key role in the design of the DFID civil society programme (ENCISS). Tennyson holds an MSC. in Zoology, BSC in Agriculture General, Diploma in Epidemiology and Control of Human Vector- Borne diseases and a certificate in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations.
Thierno Kane - (Senegal)tkane@osiwa.org
bgundokan@hotmail.com
Thierno Kane is the founder and leader of grassroots organizations in Senegal, his native country, as well as an adviser and activist for a number of NGOs/CSOs in Africa and worldwide. Adult Educator by training, he has specialized in issues of popular participation and has long experience in tripartite dialogue and partnership between CSOs, Governments and the Donor Community in Africa and internationally. Thierno has served as Executive Director and Chairman of CONGAD (Conseil des ONG d’Appui au Developpement), the North/South umbrella of NGOs in Senegal. Former founding Secretary General of the Federation des Associations Villageoises du Fouta pour le Developpment-FAFD- a grassroots movment in Senegal, he is also a founding member of ANAFA( Association Nationale pour l’Alphabetisation et la Formation des Adultes-Senegal and has participated intensively in the creation in 1987 of FAVDO (Forum of African Voluntary Organizations). He is a former global Chair of CIVICUS (World Alliance for Citizen Participation). He has been on the boards of a number of CSOs and think tanks such as the International Group for Grassroots Initiatives (IGGRI- Mexico/New Delhi) and the Development Group for Alternative Policies (D-GAP-Washington). In 1998, he launched the UNDP Regional Pilote Programme "Civil Society Empowerment for Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa" and led the programme as Coordinator and Chief Technical Advisor for 2 years. From August 2004 to January 2010, he served as Director of UNDP Civil Society Division in New York. He is currently Board Member of the Forum International de Montreal (FIM-Montreal) and is also serving in the UN Volunteers Technical Advisory Board for the State of World Volunteerism Report. Thierno Kane has been the author of a wide range of articles on NGO issues and grassroots matters and participated in major global conferences on development matters.
IMMEDIATE PAST OSIWA Board Members
ElHadji SY (Senegal) :
Elhadj Amadou Sy (As) was the Chair of the OSIWA Board of Directors from 2007-2010. He joined UNICEF and is the actual Regional Director, ESARO. Previously, As worked with UNAIDS (1997 to 2001) and started the intercountry program in Eastern and Southern Africa, with the Global Fund (2003-2005) as Africa Director and with UNDP (2005-2007) as Director of the HIV/AIDS and Development Program. He re-joined the UNAIDS from 1997 to 2001 as Director of Partnerships and External Relations and his responsibilities included directing UNAIDS’ work with partners, communications and knowledge sharing. He was also overseeing the operation of the Programme Coordinating Board and UN Relations. As also worked in his native Senegal where his duties included coordinating the Health Programme at Enda Tiers Monde (1989-1997), co-founding the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) and leading its African Chapter (AFRICASO). As holds degrees in arts, human sciences and pedagogy from Dakar University and Ecole Normale Superieure. He is a fellow at the University of Graz (Austria) and also graduated from the Vienna Diplomatic Academy.
Elsa WENTLING (Togo):
Elsa L. Wentling, a management consultant with a global consulting firm focused on assisting its clients resolve their most challenging strategic problems in order to plan for and achieve long-term success. She has consulted to various international clients in the information technology, pharmaceutical and consumer products industries; recently leading the development of strategic options for enhancing the competitiveness and sustainability of the gold mining sector in South Africa. Her expertise ranges from developing growth/acquisition strategies at corporate, regional & business unit level to market segmentations and business valuations. Elsa also advised a pan-African telecommunications company on new business development and as an investment officer for a pan-African private equity firm. She holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and French Literature from Washington University. She is the Vice Chair of the OSIWA Board of Directors.
Ayo OBE (NIGERIA):
Ayo Obe is a Legal Practitioner and a founding partner in Ogunsola Shonibare, Legal Practitioners, based in Nigeria. She is an active member of Nigeria civil society where she has done extensive work in the area of human rights, democracy and governance. She has represented Nigerian Human Rights Organizations at the Police Service Commission and has presented papers on Nigeria democracy and governance in several conferences worldwide. She has also published several papers in the field. She sits on the Board of several international organizations including the International Crisis Group. Mrs. Obe obtained her LLM degree from the University of Wales Institute of Science & Technology, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Sister Mary Laurene BROWNE (LIBERIA):
Sister Mary Laurene Browne, OSF, is from Liberia. She is the President, Stella Maris Polytechnic, a Member and a former Vice Chairperson, Board of Trustees, University of Liberia. She is a graduate of several prestigious institutions, some of which are the Boston College, Massachusetts, USA, where she graduated with an M. Ed in Education; and the Schiller International University, Paris, France, with MA, French Language and Literature. She has vast experience in development and community work in West Africa; this is represented by the various Organizations she serves on such as the Education Council of the Catholic Archdiocese of Monrovia, the Foundation for International Dignity (FIND), Center for Democratic Empowerment (CEDE) and the Liberia Association of Writers (LAW) Member.
Aïcha BAH DIALLO, (Guinea):
Mrs. Aïcha Bah Diallo is one of UNESCO’s former senior education leaders. She served from 1996 to 2005 successively as Director for Basic Education, Deputy Assistant Director General for Education, and acting Assistant Director General for education.
Mrs. Bah Diallo was appointed in 1989 as Guinea’s Minister of Education, a post she held for seven years. She implemented a highly successful education reform program, redeploying nearly one third of the country’s teachers from urban to rural areas, from administration to teaching, and from secondary to primary schools. Girls’ school enrolment during her tenure surged from 113,000 to 233,000.
Mrs. Bah Diallo pioneered UNESCO’s efforts to reduce the barriers to education for girls in the world, especially in Africa and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). She played a guiding role in the founding of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) in 1992 and the Association for Strengthening Higher education for Women in Africa (ASHEWA) in 2005.
Mrs. Bah Diallo holds a B.Sc degree in Chemistry from Penn State University, (USA), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Biochemistry from the University of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Guinea. She started her career as a chemistry teacher and has written extensively on education in Africa. Mrs. Bah Diallo is a holder of the Commandeur des Palmes Académiques Françaises and the Officier de l’Ordre National de Côte d’Ivoire. She is a member of The Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s Prize Committee, chaired by M. Kofi Annan.
Pr. Cheikh Saad Bouh KAMARA (Mauritania):
Cheikh Saad Bouh Kamara, from Mauritania, is a Professor of Sociology and holder of a Doctorate Degree in Sociology. Before joining the OSIWA Board in 2007, Mr. Kamara served as a Member (1993-2007) and then as President (2005-2007) of the Conseil d’Administration du Fonds des Nations Unies de Contributions volontaires de lutte contre les formes contemporaines de l’esclavage. He was the Vice-President of the Federation Internationale des Droits de l’Homme (FIDH) from 2001 to 2004. Mr. Kamara also was a founding member, in 1991, and former President of the Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l’Homme AMDH (1993-2003). He is an international consultant working especially on human rights issues. Cheikh received the Anti Slavery International Award in 1998 and the Officer des Paplmes Academiques Francaises in 2005. He is a father of four children.
Issa OUEDRAOGO (Burkina Faso):
Issa Ouedraogo was born in Burkina Faso from a Burkinabe father and a Ghanaian Ivorian mother. Mr. Ouedraogo did his primary and secondary education in Ghana before going to Germany in the early 80s where he completed high school and went on to University. He worked for the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) as Network Manager, German Telecom Consultancy (DETECON) as IT consultant and Saudi Arabia Telecom as an IT Advisor. He has been based in Ghana for the past four years where he is working for Ghana National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) funded by the German Center for International Migration and Development (CIM), a section of the German Development Cooperation. He has also been serving as a master trainer of experts and users on DevInfo, a UN statistical tool for monitoring and reporting on the progress of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the National Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). Mr.Ouedraogo believes strongly in the potential that the new information and communication technologies have to support the efforts being made to promote development in Africa. . He also believes that the time has come for Africans and other developing countries to use the revolution in information technology where money is no more the big challenge to their advantage. He dedicates plenty of effort towards translating such potential into concrete energy and resources for development.
Halidou OUEDRAOGO (Burkina Faso)
Mr Halidou Ouedraogo is a world known Activist who belongs to several Human Rights organizations throughout the world. He is currently the President of the Inter-African Union for Human Rights and the President of the Burkina Faso Human Rights Movement. He is a teaching fellow at the Rene Cassin Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg where he also serves in the Board of Directors. Mr Ouedraogo also teaches at the University of Ouagadougou. He has worked for the United Nations as a consultant on Human Rights and HIV/AIDS in several countries including Rwanda, Togo Burundi and Benin He is the author of several publications on Human Rights and has participated in several Human Rights conferences in Africa and Europe. He holds a degree in Law from the University of Poitiers, France.
Emelia ARTHUR (Ghana)
A 2002 Yale World Fellow in Global Leadership Studies, Emelia Arthur has over the past 13 years been engaged in social development work at community, national and international levels in leadership, natural resource management (particularly forestry) and project/programme design and management. Currently she works as Director for a community-based rural organisation, Integrated Action for Development Initiatives, aimed at strengthening local initiatives for development. Arthur has been a consultant to various organisations, including: the World Bank (IDA)/Government of Ghana Small Towns Water Supply Project; the World Conservation Union (IUCN); International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); Care International, Peace Corps; UK Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and the ’s Department for International Development (DfID). She has been part of major political and social activism initiatives in around gender, political organisation, public accountability and natural resource governance. Currently she consults as the Team Leader for the British Council’s InterAction Leadership Programme, running in 19 African countries, the and rolling out globally to the Caspian corridor, Asian and Middle Eastern regions. The programme supports dynamic leaders who are innovating, searching for alternatives and challenging accepted ways of doing things. Arthur serves on the Boards of CARE International’s Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Advisory Group and of the Open Society Initiative in West Africa (OSIWA), among others.
Past OSIWA Board Members
Abdul Tejan Cole (Sierra Leone) :
Abdul Tejan-Cole is Head of the Anti Corruption Commission in Sierra Leone. He was the Deputy Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice’s Cape Town Office. He practised as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Sierra Leone and taught law at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. Previously Mr Tejan-Cole worked as the acting coordinator of Sierra Leone’s Campaign for Good Governance. He was a Human Rights Teaching Fellow at Columbia University and ex-Secretary-General of the Sierra Leone Bar Association. He is a Yale World Fellow.
Esi Sutherland-Addy (Ghana) :
Esi Sutherland-Addy is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana at Legon. She held the position of Deputy Minister of Higher Education from 1986 to 1993. Ms. Sutherland-Addy is a member of the UNICEF/UNESCO Joint Committee on Education, the National Development Planning Commission, the Executive Board of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) and the Federation of African Women Educationalists (FAWE).
Fatimata Mbaye (Mauritania):
Me Fatimata Mbaye is a human rights lawyer and President of the Mauritanian Human Rights Association (AMDH), which was awarded the Anti-Slavery Award in 1998. Ms Mbaye’s work defending human rights has resulted in her arrest and imprisonment in Mauritania. In 1999, Ms Mbaye became the first African to receive the third Nuremberg International Prize for Human Rights, awarded to individuals held to be symbolic figures in the struggle for the recognition and respect for human rights in Africa. She is the only woman member of the Mauritanian Bar.
Julietta Mendes (Guinea Bissau) :
Julietta Mendes currently resides in the Gambia where she is the Regional Director of the SOS Kinderdorf International Regional Office for North and West Africa where she oversees the operation of all SOS Children’s villages in six countries. Dr Mendes holds a Doctorate degree in leadership and administration, a Master’s degree in educational policy, and a Bachelor’s degree in sociology and economics.
Kouferidji Ramanou (Benin):
Mr Kouferidji Ramanou is currently the President and Director General of Africoncept Broadcast Telecom SA. He is also Director and owner of Radio Afrique Espoir, winner of the 2003 African Information Society (AISI) Media Awards under the radio category. Mr Ramanou is well known in the Media and ICT world in Africa and beyond. He has participated and presented papers in several conferences in the world over and has done extensive work in the area of elections and election monitoring both as trainer and observer.
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