Kwaku A. Sakyi-Addo
Kwaku A. Sakyi-Addo is a strategic communications specialist and award-winning journalist and broadcaster, with extensive corporate and media practice experience.He served as Communication Consultant to the Government of Ghana between 2017 and 2024.
Mr. Sakyi-Addo was Chief Executive of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications from 2011-2017 when he was appointed Chair of the National Communications Authority, the telecoms industry regulator, for four years.
Prior to that, he was General Manager (Communications) for Aqua Vitens Rand, a Dutch-South African company which held a management contract for Ghana Water Company from 2006 to 2011.
He also served as Chairman of the Minerals Development Fund (2021-2024); member of the Ministerial Advisory Boards of the Ministry of Lands & Natural Resources (2021-2024) and the Ministry of Education (2013-2016) and was Vice-President of the Private Enterprise Federation (2015-2017).
As a journalist, Mr. Sakyi-Addo worked for international media as correspondent for the BBC World Service and Reuters, the world’s largest news agency. He also wrote for reputable international publications such as the Economist, Mail on Sunday and the Telegraph magazine in the UK.
In Ghana, he worked across television, radio, print and wire service. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Ghanaian Chronicle from 1993 to 1994 when the Chronicle became the first Ghanaian newspaper to go online and won Columnist of the Year in the national media awards. He was Chief Reporter for the Ghana News Agency previously.
Mr. Sakyi-Addo has interviewed many global personalities including the last three Secretaries-General of the United Nations.
Mr. Sakyi-Addo is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the African Centre for Advanced Studies (ACAS), and a Director of Africa Prosperity Network, a private sector initiative pursuing Africa’s integration through trade and infrastructure development.
He is also involved in charitable work as a director of Databank Foundation dedicated to youth leadership, literacy among children, and metal health; and Ghana Cleft Foundation, whose two-million-dollar National Cleft Care Centre is nearing completion in Kumasi.
Mr. Sakyi-Addo is a Chevening Scholar; a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN), and Africa Leadership Initiative, which promotes values-based leadership in Africa. He is also a founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations – Ghana, and served on the Foreign Ministry’s Working Group for Ghana’s 2021-23 tenure on the UN Security Council.
Mr. Sakyi-Addo holds a post-Graduate Diploma in Communications from the University of Ghana, and an Executive Master of Governance & Leadership from GIMPA. He also holds Advanced Diplomas in news agency journalism from the International Institute for Journalism in Berlin; print journalism from the University of Wales, Cardiff; and American Studies from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, where he held a World Press Institute Fellowship in 1992. He received a Diploma in Journalism and PR from the Ghana Institute of Journalism in 1983.
He was twice Journalist of the Year in 1986 and 1996, and in 2008, the Government of Ghana honoured him with the Order of the Volta (OV), one of the country’s highest honours.