Executive Director

Dr Dede Amanor-Wilks

Dr. Dede Amanor-Wilks brings to the IEA experience in multi-disciplinary research, civil society activism, journalism and communications, and electoral politics. She began her professional career as a journalist and editor, moving into the policy space. She served as ActionAid’s International Director for West & Central Africa, based in Nairobi in the 2000s, and as Director of the Inter Press Service (IPS) Regional Centre for Africa, based in Harare in the 1990s.

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Before joining the IEA, she was Director of Communications at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), based in Accra. Prior to that she had worked with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), undertaking assignments with the African Climate Policy Centre, the African Centre for Gender, and the Business Development Unit. She undertook writing projects for Danida, the IDRC, Irish Aid, the ILO, UNDP, UNIDO, UNICEF and the Panos Institute. She has published reports and papers on various development issues.

During the 1990s, she organised a ground-breaking workshop in Harare on rural telematics for five Southern African countries on behalf of the FAO, IDRC and the SADC Centre for Communication & Development and travelled to Toronto to give a presentation at the Global Knowledge 1997 Conference. She also organised a conference in Harare on labour markets for ILO Geneva.

She has trained journalists in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe on behalf of the Nordic-SADC Journalism Centre in Maputo and in Benin, Niger and Nigeria, on behalf of UNESCO’s West African News Agency Development project. She also ran a media training workshop in Harare for Index on Censorship.

In 2012, she stood as a parliamentary candidate in the Ablekuma South constituency of Greater Accra, drawing many useful lessons about Ghana’s electoral politics.

A specialist in economic development, Dr. Amanor-Wilks has a PhD from the University of Ghana’s Institute of African Studies and an MPhil and MSc in economic history from the London School of Economics, where she taught the foundation course in economic history. She also has an MA majoring in government and politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and a joint honours BA in French and German from Westfield College, University of London. She also studied journalism and communication at the University of Ghana.

Her journalistic work has been published or broadcast by a range of media houses including the BBC, Al Jazeera, the Independent newspaper, Africa Economic Digest, African Farmer, Pacific News Service, Africa Analysis, The Africa Report, Africa Confidential, West Africa magazine, Drum, Modern Africa, News Africa, Africa Today, Concord magazine, Third World Women’s News, the Daily Graphic and via the IPS cast by numerous newspapers around the world.