Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu

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Biographical Information

"Professor Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Ghana University and Chair, Ghana Wildlife Society (Ghana). Yaa is the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana and has been working to improve the research efforts of the university through strong collaboration with industry. She has been a professor and head of the Zoology Department since the mid 1980s. Yaa established a number of non-profit organisations to promote interest in environment and nature conservation in Africa, including the Centre for African Wetlands, which she now chairs. Previously, Yaa led WWF International’s Africa and Madagascar Program and was a member of the Executive Team of WWF International. She was one of five African environment experts selected for a roundtable discussion with President Clinton when he visited Botswana in 1998."

Affiliations

• Member, BHP Billiton Forum on Corporate Responsibility
• Vice president, BirdLife International