Abena Dugan

Abena Dugan is Ghanaian youth and gender advocate. In 2018, she was elected vice chair in charge of Partnership and Resources of the Commonwealth Youth Council, making her the first female and Ghanaian hold the position. The Commonwealth Youth council is the largest and most diverse youth-led organisation in the world, as such Dugan is now representing young people in 53 Commonwealth countries.[1][2][3]

Abena Dugan
NationalityGhanaian
CitizenshipGhana
EducationKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Alma materUniversity of Ghana
OccupationActivist
Years active2018 – present
Known forCommonwealth Youth Council

Education

She is a former student of St. Louis Secondary School and Student Representative Council Secretary of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. She also has a Masters in Development Finance from the University of Ghana, legon.[4][5]

Career

As part of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018, she contested and won an election leading to her appointment as vice chair of the partnership and resources. Before her appointment, she served as the financial coordinator for the Commonwealth Alliance for young entrepreneurs West Africa Chapter. She is also a founding member of Climate Resilient Network and a member of the World Students Environmental Network.[6][5]

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gollark: You would say "turning the planet into paperclips" and it would say "it's bad" and such.
gollark: There was actually one AI research organisation recently which made a language model try to capture human common sense ethics.
gollark: You train a neural network on samples of good things, and it outputs new good things for you to do.
gollark: That, and also by many metrics things are generally improving.

References
  1. "Abena Dugan 1st Ghanaian Vice Chair of Commonwealth Youth Council". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  2. 122108447901948 (2018-07-02). "Ghanaian Youth activist gets position on Commonwealth Youth Council". Graphic Online. Retrieved 2019-10-26.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. "Abena Dugan – Commonwealth Youth Council". Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  4. "Abena Dugan 1st Ghanaian Vice Chair of Commonwealth Youth Council". www.myjoyonline.com. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  5. Mensah, Kent. "Dugan elected 1st Ghanaian vice chair of Commonwealth Youth Council | Starr Fm". Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  6. "Abena Dugan elected as 1st Ghanaian vice chair for Commonwealth Youth Council". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
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