Patrick Awuah Jr.

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Patrick Awuah Jr.
Born 1965
Nationality Ghanaian
Citizenship Ghana
Alma mater Achimota School
UC Berkeley ,
Swarthmore College
Known for Ashesi University
Spouse Rebecca Awuah
Awards MacArthur fellowship

Patrick Awuah Jr. (born 1965) is a Ghanaian engineer, educator, and entrepreneur. Awuah established Ashesi University in 2002. [1] Awuah has won many awards as an individual and as the founder of Ashesi University . [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Life [ edit ]

Awuah grew up in Accra , Ghana . He attended the Achimota School [7] [8] where he was a house prefect. [ citation needed ] He moved to the U.S. in 1985 to attend Swarthmore College with a full scholarship. He earned bachelor's degrees in Engineering and Economics, graduating in 1989. Following graduation, Awuah worked as a software engineer and program manager for Microsoft from 1989 to 1997. At Microsoft, he met his future wife, software testing engineer Rebecca Awuah. [9]

In 1997, Awuah left Microsoft with the goal of returning to Ghana to educate the next generation of African leaders. [10] [11] He enrolled at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley , focusing his work on preparing a business plan for Ashesi. Awuah, Nina Marini, and other graduate students from Berkeley went to Ghana to do a feasibility study for opening a private university there. Awuah graduated with his MBA in 1999. That same year, he moved back to Ghana with his family to found Ashesi University. [1] [12] [13] [14] Awuah continues to serve as the president of Ashesi University. [15]

Achievements and awards [ edit ]

John Kufuor presented Awuah the Order of the Volta Award to recognise his contribution to tertiary education in Ghana in 2007. [2] In 2009, Awuah won the John P. McNulty Prize. [16] In 2010, Awuah was awarded 87th most creative business person by Fast Company . [17] In 2014, he received The Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award , which honours UC Berkeley alumni with distinguished records of service to their native country. [18] In the same year he was named best social entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship . [19] In 2015, Awuah was listed by Fortune as number 40 in world's 50 greatest leaders [4] and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. [5] In 2017, Awuah was awarded the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) prize, a major global education award. [6]

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

External videos
video icon Education Entrepreneur Patrick Awuah, 2015 MacArthur Fellow , 3:35, MacArthur Foundation [20]
video icon Patrick Awuah: How to educate leaders? Liberal arts , 17:26, TED Talks [14]
  1. ^ a b "History :Ashesi University Foundation" . ashesi.org . Retrieved 2015-09-30 .
  2. ^ a b "Order of the Volta award" . Retrieved 20 January 2018 .
  3. ^ "Creating the next generation of ethical leaders in West Africa" . McNulty Foundation . 29 August 2020 . Retrieved 29 August 2020 .
  4. ^ a b "Worlds 50 greatest leaders" .
  5. ^ a b "MacArthur Fellowship 2015" .
  6. ^ a b "Ashesi University founder wins education award" . Graphic Online. 15 Nov 2017 . Retrieved 20 January 2018 .
  7. ^ Ofori-Mensah. "22 Successful Ghanaians Who Went To Achimota School" . OMGVoice . Archived from the original on 2017-03-30 . Retrieved 2017-03-29 .
  8. ^ Awuah, Patrick. "Achimota School @ 80" (PDF) . Ashesi University Archives . Ashesi University . Retrieved 29 August 2020 .
  9. ^ Maguire, Ken (January 2010). "A New Model of Leadership for Africa" . Swarthmore College Bulletin .
  10. ^ "Building a University, and Hope, in Ghana" . NPR.org . Retrieved 2015-09-30 .
  11. ^ "Setting Up Ghana's First Liberal Arts College Makes Him A 'Genius' " . NPR.org . Retrieved 2017-06-22 .
  12. ^ "List: MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant' recipients, 2015" . San Diego Mercury News. Associated Press. 29 September 2015 . Retrieved 29 September 2015 .
  13. ^ Carpenter, John (28 September 2015). "3 Chicagoans among class of MacArthur 'geniuses' " . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 29 September 2015 .
  14. ^ a b "Patrick Awuah: How to educate leaders? Liberal arts" . TED Talks . 2007 . Retrieved September 29, 2015 .
  15. ^ "Governance & Leadership" . Ashesi University . Retrieved 29 August 2020 .
  16. ^ "2009 John P. McNulty Prize Finalists" . Archive.org . 25 June 2009 . Retrieved 29 August 2020 .
  17. ^ "Patrick Awuah named amongst 100 most creative people in business" . Retrieved 20 January 2018 .
  18. ^ "Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award" .
  19. ^ "Ashesi at a glance" .
  20. ^ "Patrick Awuah" . MacArthur Foundation . September 28, 2015 . Retrieved September 29, 2015 .

External links [ edit ]

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