Governance

Mrs. Esi Tawia Addo-Ashong

Mrs. Esi Tawia Addo-Ashong is a Barrister with over three decades of experience in the provision of legal advice and services in Ghana. Mrs. Addo-Ashong is currently the Managing Partner for Ashong Benjamin and Associates, a law firm in Accra. She has participated in some significant mining projects and transactions; advising inter alia on licensing and regulatory issues and drafting and negotiating agreements for the sector. She has done substantial work developing anti-corruption programs for corporations, which comply with the UK Bribery Act, the FCPA and the Ghanaian laws on corruption.

Mrs. Addo-Ashong began her career in 1989 at Sey and Co. Law Office and moved to Integrity Financial Services in 1994. She later became the Manager for Legal services at Deloitte and Touche and later assumed the role of Managing Director at Dehands services (Company Secretarial wing of Deloitte and Touche). In 2002, she became the Head, Legal and Company Secretary at SIC Company Limited. She moved to Newmont Ghana Gold Limited in 2007 as the Director of Legal and Government Relations. Tawia studied Leadership Cohort Program at University of Denver and Mining Agreements at University of Dundee, Scotland. Prior to that, she participated in a short course on Mining Agreements at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. 

She is a director on the board of New Horizon Special School. She holds a B.A (Hons.) degree Law and Political Science from University of Ghana and was called to the Bar in Ghana in 1989. Mrs. Addo-Ashong was appointed to the Stanbic Bank Board of Director in 2020. She was appointed Chairperson of the Stanbic Board in March 2022.

Ms. Nilla Selormey

Ms. Nilla Selormey is a Corporate Banker with over 25 years of experience in West Africa, including with three greenfield bank operations in Ghana – Ecobank (1990), Zenith Bank (2005), Fidelity Bank (2006), and Universal Merchant Bank (2014-15). Her specialty is in Business Development in Banking for West African markets with multinational & International Corporate names.

Ms. Selormey set up and headed the Institutional Banking department for Ecobank Ghana, assisted with the set up of the Corporate Initiative Ghana Annual Banking Awards and developed key relationships with Bilateral, Multinational and quasi-Governmental organizations as well as international and regional NGO’s. Nilla managed relationships on a global level for the Ecobank group, successfully executing mandates to partner with International Organizations across Africa for the provision of Banking Services. She successfully headed the turn around of Universal Merchant Bank as the Managing Director of the institution from January 2014 to March 2015.

Dr. George Francois

Dr. George Francois is a pianist, composer, writer, producer, music director and Arts Educator. He lectures at Ashesi University as an Associate Professor in the HSS department. An alumni of The Juilliard School in New York City, Dr. Francois holds degrees from the University of Ghana, Legon, the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, U.K., the University of Texas at Austin, and Stony Brook University. He has performed in the United Kingdom, the United States, and in the Caribbean as both a soloist and collaborative pianist. Recital venues in New York have included Alice Tully Hall, MOMA, Metropolitan Museum, Lerner Hall, and St. Paul’s Chapel. Collaborative partners have included Rita Dove, Rachel Barton Pine, Dr. Sally Singer, and Luther Francois.

George serves as the Music Director of Sankusem Inc, and of Negritude Theater Company. He is currently Interim Executive Director of the New Horizon Special School.