Mrs. Adwoa Annan is the co-founder of Geothermal Management Services Ltd, a green technology company. She is also a non-executive director of Waveline Growth Partners Limited, a finance company in Nigeria, and a consulting Advisor at Alfie Designs, a garment manufacturing company, and J&J Plastics Ltd

Prior to that, Mrs. Annan had a successful 30-year career in the financial services sector having worked in both the mainstream banking and microfinance sectors. She has extensive experience in banking operations, customer service, sales management, and strategic management.

She started her career with Barclays as a management trainee where she worked for 23 years, holding various senior management roles in operations, internal audit, branch management, and business development.

Following a passion to empower women, she joined Women’s World Banking in 2007 as the Chief Operations Officer overseeing all aspects of business strategy growth with specific concentration on the banking operations, credits, IT, Human Resources, and Administration units. In 2011, she became the CEO and voluntarily retired after 4 years of implementing a successful turnaround program.

She holds an International Baccalaureate diploma from United World College of the Atlantic (U.K), a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK), and a professional graduate diploma in management (International Professional Managers Association). She is also a graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Administration and Management Consultancy.