Elsie Addo Awadzi was appointed Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana in 2018 with primary responsibility for overseeing the Bank’s prudential and market conduct regulatory functions and macroprudential oversight, among others. She is a member of the Bank’s Board of Directors, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, and a member of Ghana’s Financial Stability Council which has representation from financial regulatory authorities in Ghana and the Finance Ministry.
Elsie is a member of the Board of Directors of the Toronto Centre, an organisation which provides high quality capacity-building programmes and guidance for financial supervisors and regulators, primarily in developing nations.
Before her appointment as Deputy Governor, Elsie was Senior Counsel of the Financial and Fiscal Law Unit of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where she conducted financial sector stability assessments on G20 countries and provided technical assistance for the design and implementation of banking supervisory, resolution, and crisis management frameworks in a number of IMF member countries. Before joining the IMF in 2012, she was a Commissioner of Ghana’s Securities & Exchange Commission, worked as a consultant on key financial sector reforms in Ghana and abroad, and worked in private law practice and commercial banking, among others.
She holds an LL.M. degree (International Business and Economic Law) with distinction from the Georgetown University Law Center, and M.B.A. (Finance) and LL.B. Degrees from the University of Ghana respectively.