Rose Mensah-Kutin

She was born and bred in Brofoyedru, a town in the Adansi South district of the Ashanti region of Ghana, to a cocoa and coffee farmer.[3]

Dr Mensah-Kutin was once a student of Brofoyedru Middle and United Methodist Middle Schools. She completed Accra Girls Secondary School and later went to Aggrey Memorial Zion Secondary School for her sixth-form education.[3] She completed a bachelor's degree in English and History 1978 at University of Ghana and returned to do master's degree in Mass Communication from the same university in the following year.[4][5] She holds a second master's degree from the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and a PhD in Gender and Energy Studies from the University of Birmingham, UK.[5]

Early on in her career, she worked as an assistant editor for Daily Graphic in Ghana shortly after she co-founded Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana in 1999. She was one time Social Impact Assessment officer at Ghana's Ministry of Mines and Energy.[6] She sits on the boards of The Netherlands-based International Gender and Energy Network (ENERGIA) and African Women Development Fund in Accra, Ghana.[7] She is currently the West Africa Regional director for ABANTU for Development,[2] an international non-governmental organisation that empowers women by giving leadership training in sustainable development.[8]

She is married to Professor Kwame Karikari with four children.[2]