Mrs. Muriel Susan Edusei brings extensive banking, business, corporate governance and boardroom experience to the Board Chairperson role.
Mrs. Edusei worked with National Investment Bank in various positions for eighteen (18) years from 1977, retiring as Head of Foreign Operations in 1995. She subsequently joined Oikocredit International, a development finance institution with its headquarters in the Netherlands, as Regional Manager for Anglophone West Africa, where she established the regional office in Ghana to serve Ghana, Gambia and Sierra Leone. She eventually retired from Oikocredit in December 2010 after a successful tenure.
Mrs. Edusei has extensive boardroom experience, having served as board chair of HFC Bank, now Republic Bank and on other boards including, Fidelity Equity Fund II, Opportunity International Savings and Loans Company Limited and Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.
A product of Wesley Girls’ High School, she obtained a BSc. Administration (Accounting Option) degree in 1975 and an MBA (Finance) degree in 1989 from the School of Administration, now University of Ghana Business School.
Mrs. Edusei is a Hubert Humphrey Fellow and during her fellowship program in the United States, she undertook an MBA Finance and Banking non-degree awarding course at the Boston University. Additionally, she did attachments in Banking Supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and in International Trade and Finance at the Chemical Bank, New York, U.S.A.
She is also a Fellow of the Ghana Institute of Directors and previously served as a Council Member.