Elsie Addo Awadzi is the Women in Public Leadership Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government. Mrs Addo Awadzi is a multi-disciplinary professional and high-impact leader with 30 years of experience working in Ghana and internationally, in economic policy management, global economic governance, international development, financial sector development/regulation, corporate finance, and law.

She is formerly the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, where she was a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, and oversaw key functions such as financial institutions regulation, supervision, and financial stability. She represented the Bank on several public sector Boards and on international groups such as the Basel Consultative Group, the Network for Greening the Financial System, and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion whose Gender Inclusive Finance Committee she chaired for four years. Before her appointment as Deputy Governor, she was Senior Counsel of the IMF (Financial and Fiscal Law Unit) where she worked for six years advising IMF member country authorities on banking sector regulatory reforms, crisis management, financial stability assessments, public debt management and fiscal governance. She also taught and directed courses for IMF member-country officials in Washington D.C. and in IMF regional training centres in Vienna (Austria), Mauritius, and Singapore. Before joining the IMF in 2012, Mrs Addo Awadzi was a two-term Commissioner of Ghana’s Securities and Exchange Commission and in that role, was active in formulating policies and rules to regulate Ghana’s then-nascent capital market. She also consulted extensively on policy and legislative reforms, worked as a corporate transactions lawyer, and worked briefly as a Senior Treasury Dealer in banking.