Hon. Mrs. Gifty Affenyi Dadzie is a leader in the media, religious and financial business world with a strong will and capacity to undertake public service.
As a result of her outstanding contribution to public life, the State of Ghana in 2006 awarded her with the ORDER OF THE VOLTA (Companion division). She was made a member of the Council of State in 2004 making history as the youngest member ever. She is currently a member of Governing Council of the National African Peer Review Mechanism, a member of the ECOWAS Council of the Wise; and a trustee of the COVID-19 National Trust Fund.
She had a journalistic training at the Ghana Institute of Journalism and Radio Netherlands, Hilversum. She has a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of London and a Masters in Governance & Leadership from the Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration.
Her leadership in the media started as the Assistant Secretary of the Association of Women in Media, the President of the GBC Chapter of the Association as well as the Vice Chairman of the Greater Accra Branch of the Ghana Journalists Association.
In 1996, as a Senior Editor having risen through the ranks from 1977 as an Assistant Reporter, she resigned to begin her media activism. She contested for the position of Vice President of the GJA and became the first female to ever hold that position.
She then progressed to become President of the GJA, serving for an unprecedented tenure of 3 terms. This makes her the longest serving GJA President. Her reign was credited with many guidelines for Conflict Reporting, Election Reporting, and the Guidelines for Reporting the National Reconciliation Commission popularly called the Spirit of Akosombo.
Her legacy is the Ghana International Press Centre. She has also served as a member of the National Media Commission and the past member of the Governing Board of the Ghana Institute of Journalism.
She is the National Prayer Director of Aglow International; leading thousands of Ghanaians at the Monthly Intercessory Prayer Meetings for Ghana since 1999. She is the Managing Director of 1st African Group.
She is married to Mr. K T. Dadzie, an Entrepreneur and Philanthropist with whom she has raised two daughters and have three grandchildren.
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