Charlotte Ama Osei
| Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei | |
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| Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana | |
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Assumed office 2015 |
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| President | John Dramani Mahama |
| Preceded by | Kwadwo Afari-Gyan |
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| Born | February 1, 1969 |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Domestic partner | source?) |
Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei (born 1 February 1969) is the current chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana. She became the first female to serve in this office since the independence of Ghana. Before her appointment she was the chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education.
Osei was born in Nigeria, her mother is of Nigerian nationality and her father is Ghanaian.
Osei had her secondary education at the Ghana National College in Cape Coast. She proceeded to the University of Ghana where she obtained her LLB in 1992 and Ghana School of Law where she obtained and called to the bar in 1994. She also holds Master of Business Leadership (MBL) from the University of South Africa, Pretoria (2006), Master of Laws, (LLM), from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Osei was a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon in 1994 and 1995. She worked as a lawyer for Laryea Company in Accra from 1994 to 1997, then as Senior Legal Officer at the Ghana Commercial Bank from 1997 until 2002. She also lectured part time in commercial law at the university from 1997 until 2003.
From 2002 until 2005, Osei worked as General Counsel for Unibank Ghana, and then from 2005 until 2011 as founder and lead counsel for business lawyers, Prime Attorneys. She was chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education from 2011 until 2015. In 2015 she was appointed chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana and she presided as the Returning Officer for Ghana's 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
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