She is also a member of the African Union Labour Migration Advisory Committee, representing the Diaspora African Forum. She is an international best selling author of: Deadly Work or Decent Work? The Africa-Middle East Domestic Workers Migration Process. She is the Chairperson of the United Nations Youth Association- Ghana and the Enddeadlywork Coalition, USA.

Her Excellency, is a world renowned philanthropist and Princess born in Ghana to the late Nene Akrofi Kubi III, Kingmaker of the Ada Traditional Area and Mrs. Millicent Ocansey, a former member of the Ghana Constitution Consultative Assembly.

Her Excellency attended Wesley Girls’ High School in Cape Coast, and Rutgers University – College of Engineering where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Ceramic Engineering, and a Graduate Certificate in Packaging Science and Engineering/specializing in Plastics Engineering, as well as attaining a graduate certificate in International Trade and Finance from NYU, New York. She obtained her doctorate in Divinity from CICA, Canada.

She is also a quality school graduate trained by the US Quality Control expert, the late Mr. Ed Deming. She spent time in the Philippines studying their Migration models went on to the Canadian Institute to study the Temporary Foreign Workers.

She has held professional and top management positions in engineering with USA Fortune 500 companies, PepsiCo, Avon products and Johnson & Johnson products. After working in the USA, she returned home to Ghana with a focus on human capital development through education, migration and job creation for the youth.

She created thousands of jobs in Ghana when she launched the first African centered boutique in a major USA mall, Dayton Hudson’s, and later the first and longest running African TV shopping program on QVC TV in the USA, called “Destination Africa” creating several jobs for thousands of artisans in Ghana with sales of over $4 million of African products over two years. This facilitated a multi-million-dollar Afrocentric industry in Ghana leading to other major US stores like JCPenney and Pier One, buying products from Ghana – while boosting Ghana’s Tourism through her innovative edutainment videos on Ghana.

Her most recent product line: Treasures of Eden is part of her all naturals line powered by rural womens farms products, thereby providing jobs for several rural communities. She has held consulting positions with the Ghana Investment Promotion Center, Ghana Export Promotion Council, UNDP and Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical, USA, as well as a member of the UN Secretary General’s 12-member Expert Task Force under the UNEP – ICT/Renewable Energy division for rural development.

  She has won awards including the prestigious USA Ron Brown Award for International Trade and Good Ethics, the CELD award for Excellence in Migration and Security, Dubai, the GPA awards, UK, the Ma Africa Awards in South Africa, for her humanitarian work in HIV/AIDS.  She has been successful in mobilizing USA celebrities like Isaac Hayes, Denzel Washington, Steven Seagal and American medical doctors and students in the war against HIV/AIDS in Ghana. She initiated the development of a model international workers program for Ghanaian workers to work legally in the USA. After running successfully for three years the model is currently being rolled out internationally to Canada, USA, Australia and the Gulf States in partnership with top international recruitment and placement agencies, such as Manpower UK – the largest recruitment agency in the world.

She has appeared on several TV and radio programs, including CNN, NBC, FOX TV and BBC, UK, GTV, TV3 and Metro TV. Her passion is to see a paradigm shift in the migration of African youth overseas to provide them with a roadmap for success. She committed to fighting for the underdog: faceless and voiceless orphans, HIV/AIDS babies, or migrant women domestic workers.  She is a devout Christian and mother of one child, Funmi Serwa, and several adopted children.