Ms. E. Nana-Fosu Randall, IIMSAM’s Special Adviser and Facilitator for Africa with special focus on Ghana, Tanzania, Liberia and Uganda. She was born in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana and received her early education in Ghana and England. She holds a bachelors degree in accounting from Hampton University, Virginia, an MBA in Finance from the New York Institute of Technology and has had more than 29 years of experience in the Accounts Division of the United Nations.

Her years with the UN included many fieldwork missions, as well as at the UN Headquarters. Among other assignments, she served in 1990 as Chief Finance Officer to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, Chief Finance Officer to the UN Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission from 1991-1993, Chief Revenue, Trust Funds and Technical Cooperation Section of the UN, from 1998-2000. In 2001 and 2002 she had a special posting as Chief Administrative Officer for the UN International Commission in the Ivory Coast and the UN Officer of Peace Building Activities in Liberia. She served as treasurer of the UN African Mothers Association, and most recently as Senior Special Assistant to the Director of the UN Accounts Division.

Nana-Fosu Randall has seen much suffering during her service with the UN. She developed an opinion: “Wars do not build nations; wars destroy them. Wars bring unnecessary pain, hunger, distress and suffering especially to the women and children. She believes that there is an alternative to war; the promotion of peace, the sharing of resources and the creation of understanding among all people.” With those thoughts in mind she, along with a group of friends founded Voices of African Mothers.

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