Eugenia heads the Research Team of Ghana’s lead Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) – the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC).
She influences the Centre’s performance and policies related to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) through investment targeting, facilitation services and content creation while proposing investment promotion best practices through her work.
Eugenia has been key in providing content for the Centre’s promotional tools and engagements, conducting research into key investment topics towards policy advocacy, providing information to both existing and potential investors and producing the Centre’s investment reports on Foreign Direct Investments inflows into Ghana.
In recent times, Eugenia serves as the focal person for GIPC’s external relations with donor partners. And through her work, she has supported in the development of a corporate strategy for the GIPC which is being rolled out, she is ensuring the Centre has efficient systems and tools in place for all key functions and also supporting in building the capacity of teams to execute the key mandate of the Centre.
She also leads her dynamic and proactive team to embark upon the Regional Sensitization Tour (RST) that assists local businesses to find suitable partnerships with foreign counterparts and attract investments into key sectors for developing the Ghanaian economy, including efforts to achieve the 70% contribution from private sector for the GHC100 billion Ghana CARES program, support the GIPC in making Ghana the hub for investments in Africa and to drive the Ghana Beyond Aid agenda, even as we progress with the operationalization of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA).
Eugenia is a Certified Project Management Professional and a recipient of the prestigious Chevening Scholarship awards. She is a graduate in Development Economics and Policy from the University of Manchester. She also holds an MBA in Corporate Strategy and Economic Policy from the Maastricht School of Management – Netherlands and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Ghana in Mathematics and Computer Science.
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