Hon. Nana Oye Bampoe Addo

Hon. Nana Oye Bampoe Addo is the Deputy Chief of Staff in charge of Administration and a member of the World Bank Advisory Council for Partnership for Economic Inclusion. A distinguished human rights lawyer with over 30 years' experience, she has championed causes in human rights advocacy, litigation, gender, governance and social protection.

She previously served as Ghana's Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, where she pioneered the country's first formal social protection system and established the Ghana National Household Registry, the first of its kind in West Africa. Under her leadership, Ghana adopted five landmark policies, including the Gender Policy, the Social Protection Policy and the Justice for Children Policy.

Earlier in her career, she worked with civil society as Regional Coordinator of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Africa Office, where she played a pivotal role in advocacy that led to landmark legislation such as the Right to Information Bill, the Domestic Violence Act, the Human Trafficking Act and the Disability Act. At the continental level, she contributed to civil society efforts that secured the adoption of the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women.

She founded the Human Rights Advocacy Centre. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ghana and a Master of Laws in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria.

Hon. Nana Oye remains deeply committed to human rights protection, women's empowerment, governance, transparency and the inclusion of vulnerable groups.