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Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is the key decision-making body of T-TEL organisation and ensures the implementation of decisions and resolutions made at the annual general meeting. The Board provides strategic direction to, and oversight of the Executive Team of T-TEL (the Secretariat) and has a clear remit to focus on the operations of T-TEL as an organisation. It acts as the bridge between the Subscribers and the Secretariat and meets on a quarterly basis. There are currently eight full Board members – six members (including the Chair) are from the Subscribers whilst two additional members have been nominated by the Ministry of Education. Board meetings are also attended by the Executive Director, a Ministry of Education representative and the Company Secretary whom do not have voting rights.
Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah
Board Chair
Jophus Anamuah-Mensah
Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah is the Board Chair of T-TEL. He is also the Key Adviser for Curriculum Reform, and the Executive Chair of the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA), a programme that has produced free study units for improving classroom practice across thirteen different countries. Prof. Anamuah-Mensah was the Director of School and Community Science and Technology Studies and now Director of the Institute for Educational Research and Innovation Studies at the University of Education, Winneba. He is the Chairman of Open Learning Exchange, an organisation dedicated to improving the quality of learning in Ghanaian schools through the use of technology and especially, the creation of an open digital education library accessible online and offline. He was also the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and for nine years Prof. Anamuah-Mensah was the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of University of Education Winneba (UEW), the first university in Africa dedicated to teacher education.
Sister Elizabeth Amoako-Arhen
Vice Chair
Sister Elizabeth Amoako-Arhen
Sister Elizabeth is the former Principal of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA) College of Education. She is a former President of the Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education (PRINCOF) where she played a leading role in implementing Ghana’s teacher education reforms. She is a Board member of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) and a Council member of Ghana Education Service (GES).
Professor Rita Akosua Dickson
Member
Prof. Rita Akosua Dickson
Professor Dickson is the Vice-Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). She is a Phyto chemist and is a board member of the Pharmacy Council and Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana.
Professor Kwame Akyeampong
Member
Prof. Kwame Akyeampong
Kwame is Professor of International Education and Development at the Open University. He has published widely in international journals on education and development. His research interests cover teacher education, evaluation of large-scale education programmes, policy and practice of education, and mathematics education.
Professor George Oduro
Member
Prof. George Oduro
Professor Oduro is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He has taught at all levels of Ghana’s educational system in both rural and urban contexts. His professional development concerns lie in leadership strategies for improving the quality of teaching and learning in schools.
John Martin
Member
John Martin
John is a former Director of Cambridge Education where he oversaw a variety of large-scale education programmes across numerous countries including Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria. John played a central role in designing T-TEL in 2013 and 2014.
Professor Mohammed Salifu
Member
Prof. Mohammed Salifu
Professor Salifu is the Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) and the former Executive Secretary of the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE). Before joining NCTE he was Professor of Transport Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
Dr. Michael Boakye-Yiadom
Member
Dr. Michael Boakye-Yiadom
Michael is the Director-General of the Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) at the University of Cape Coast. IEPA is a UNESCO Category II Institute which is expected to build the capacity of the education workforce in the West African sub-region in the areas of Educational Planning, Leadership and Administration as well as mobilising international and regional experts to provide technical assistance and policy advice to support sector-wide planning and policy development. Michael is a highly experienced researcher and administrator with a PhD in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Ohio University in the USA.
Aso Wusu Asante
Member
Aso Wusu Asante
Aso 
has over eighteen (18) years of experience in Strategy & Transaction, Assurance and Accountancy services working with DFIs, Public and Private Sectors across varied industries in the West Africa Sub Region (Ghana, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and The Gambia), South Africa and the United Kingdom. Having worked with Ernst & Young for Seventeen (17) years rising to the position of an Associate Director, Aso resigned in April 2020 to take up a CEO position in Consultancy Fields Limited.
Her skill set covers Audit (Internal & External), Reporting Accounting Services, Writing of Accounting Manuals, Business Plans and Information Memorandum, Financial Due Diligence, Business Valuation, Financial Modelling, Feasibility Studies, Capital Raise and Training.
Robin Todd
Executive Director
Robin Todd
Robin Todd is T-TEL’s Executive Director, responsible for strategic direction and ensuring that the organisation provides high-quality technical assistance to the Government of Ghana. Robin is a public policy, education and international development professional with a wide breadth of skills and experience ranging from community-level implementation to national policy and planning. Twenty years of experience includes fifteen years working in education, social development and public service delivery positions in Africa and four and a half years’ developing and implementing policy on education and skills at senior levels within the British Government. Robin has led technical assistance assignments for a range of agencies including FCDO, World Bank, UNESCO, ILO, EU, GiZ, ADB, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Education Commission in Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi, Egypt, Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, The Philippines, Nepal, St Lucia and St Vincent & the Grenadines. From 2009 to 2010 he worked under Gordon Brown in the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and has subsequently advised Ministries of Education in Tanzania, Uganda, Sierra Leone and Ghana on applying the ‘delivery approach’ to improve education systems. Robin first came to Ghana from 2000 to 2002 where he worked as an English Teacher in a Senior High School in the Northern Region. He returned to Ghana in 2017 to support the Ministry of Education on teacher education reforms and considers it a privilege to be appointed as the first Executive Director of T-TEL.
Janice Edzie
Chief Internal Auditor
PRISCILLA ANIMA AKYEAMPONG
Company Secretary
Priscilla Anima Akyeampong
Priscilla is an associate at Akufo-Addo, Prempeh & Company. She holds a Master of Law in Litigation and Dispute Resolution (LLM) from George Washington University Law School in Maryland, USA and is a member of the Federation International of Women Lawyers (FIDA Ghana) and the Ghana Bar Association.