Professor Akua Opokua Britwum, Associate Professor at the Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies, University of Cape Coast (UCC), has been elected Chair of the National Media Commission (NMC).

She will serve a three-year term, a statement issued by the NMC in Accra on Thursday said.

Prof Britwum is a distinguished scholar and activist. She holds a doctorate from Maastricht University, Netherlands; a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Ghana, Legon; and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from UCC.

She received her secondary education at Aburi Girls’ Secondary School.

Prof Britwum previously served as Director of the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy, and Documentation at UCC.

She also held the Ela Bhatt Guest Professorship at the University of Kassel, Germany, and was an associate fellow of the Global Labour University.

Prof Britwum is a former Convenor of the Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana. She is a reviewer for several academic journals and serves on the editorial board of the Global Labour Journal.

She also sits on the advisory boards of Feminist Africa and the International Review of Social History.

Her academic work focuses on gender and labour studies, development theory, union democracy, and women in the informal economy.