{"id":3333,"date":"2021-12-16T08:41:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T07:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itu-app42371.pagelyhosting.com\/wtpf21\/?page_id=3333"},"modified":"2021-12-17T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T08:20:11","slug":"chair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wtpf.itu.int\/2021\/about\/chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-itu-layout-section-block\"><div class=\"itu-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Her Excellency Ms Ursula Owusu-Ekuful (MP)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Minister for Communications and Digitalisation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ursula Owusu-Ekuful (MP) is Ghana\u2019s Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, and serves as the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West Constituency within the Greater Accra Region in Ghana.&nbsp; Before her appointment as the Minister for Communications in 2017, Ms Owusu-Ekuful was a Managing Consultant with N. U. Consult Legal &#8211; Governance and Gender Consultants. She then served as the Chairperson of the Social Development Sector Committee, a committee responsible for the development of policy interventions for women, children, persons with disability, the aged and all social intervention policies and programmes for the NPP 2016 manifesto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is also a member of the ITU Broadband Commission in addition to holding the following roles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>a lawyer and a member of the Ghana Bar Association;<\/li><li>an Executive Member of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Ghana; and<\/li><li>a member of the African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA), Ghana.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Owusu-Ekuful holds a Master\u2019s degree in Conflict, Peace and Security from the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre. She also co-chaired the Africa Union\/European Union Digital Economy Task Force which was launched in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wtpf.itu.int\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Chair-Ursula-banner-e1637162218298.jpg\" alt=\"Ursula\" class=\"wp-image-3337\" width=\"396\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Video Interview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ITU INTERVIEWS: Hon. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ghana\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yweYcM-Y-14?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":2506,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-submenu.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"class_list":["post-3333","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtpf.itu.int\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtpf.itu.int\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtpf.itu.int\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtpf.itu.int\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtpf.itu.int\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wtpf.itu.int\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3333\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtpf.itu.int\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtpf.itu.int\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}