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Ms. Gladys Adwoa Asiedu

Head of Corporate Affairs
She is a 7-time award winning Journalist and former Deputy Editor of the ‘’Ghanaian Times’’. Previously, she was the newspaper’s Presidential Correspondent at the Castle (seat of government), News Editor, Head of Women & Children’s Desk and Features Editor. A product of the Ghana Institute of Journalism in Accra, she also has a Certificate in Journalism Studies and Practice from Regents College, London, a Certificate in Commonwealth and International Affairs, from Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University and a Certificate in Supervisory and Management Skills in Journalism from Project Management Consultants, Ghana.

Experience & Activities

Ms. Asiedu has travelled extensively covering local and international assignments such as the Fourth World Women’s Conference organized by the United Nations in 1995 in Beijing, China; African Union Summits and presidential state visits in many parts of Africa, and the Non-Aligned Movement’s Summit in Belgrade (capital of former Yugoslavia). In 2002, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) contracted her to be on a Media Team that published the daily newspaper, ‘’ADF News” for the Third African Development Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Among her many other experiences are her attachment to the Cambridge Evening News in England in 1997; participation in a UNESCO-sponsored Pan African Women’s Conference in Zanzibar, Tanzania, where she presented a paper on “Ghanaian Women and the Peace Process” and a UNDP-sponsored Workshop in Mali, on the “Negative Portrayal of Africa by the International Media”.

In 2004, the American Biographical Institute (ABI) declared her “Woman of the Year for Outstanding Accomplishments and Contributions to Society.” It also declared her “A great Woman of the 21st Century’’, published in the ABI’s 2004/5 Edition of “Great Women of the 21st Century” – a publication for leading universities and libraries around the world. In 2005, the United Cultural Convention, USA, gave her the ‘’International Peace Prize for Outstanding Personal achievements to the Good of Society”.

Among her many associations, Ms. Asiedu is a Harry Brittain Fellow, England (the Commonwealth Press Union’s prestigious award for Journalists). She is also a member of the American Biographical Institute’s Women’s Advisory Board and a Patron of the Cancer Society of Ghana.
In her leisure hours she enjoys swimming, cooking, watching movies/documentaries, reading and listening to music.