Career Biography

Akyaa Afreh Arhin Addo-Kufuor serves as the Company Secretary and Group Head of the Legal and Recovery Departments of OmniBSIC Bank.

Akyaa was the first Legal Counsel of the University of Ghana from 2010 to 2017. Prior to that, she was the head of the Legal Department of Intercontinental Bank Ghana Limited (now Access Bank). As senior legal consultant at AB & David Law (formerly General Law Consult) from 2004 to 2007, she was a member of the team of legal consultants that advised the Millennium Development Authority, Ghana (MiDA) on the Compact signed between the Government of Ghana and the Millennium Challenge Corporation of the United States of America for the provision of five hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ facility and several other projects. Akyaa worked at Dehands Services Limited, a subsidiary of Deloitte Ghana, which provides legal secretarial services to companies.

Akyaa was a member of the Governing Council of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) from 2016 to 2020 and member of the Committee to Develop a Tertiary Education Policy from 2018 to 2019, among others. She has been consultant to the respective Committees to draft Statutes of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, University of Media, Arts and Communication, 2024 and the University of Professional Studies, Accra from 2019-2020. She was the Secretary to the Presidential Committee on Emoluments of Article 71 Office Holders from 2019 to 2021.

Akyaa was called to the Ghana Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor in 1998. She holds an LLB degree from the University of Ghana and a Master of Laws Degree (LLM) from Temple University, USA (May 2000).She has attended several advanced training courses including the High Potentials Leadership Programs in Harvard University and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business respectively as well as the Executive Negotiations Course at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the UK. She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association and a Notary Public.