Birth Place: | Ghana |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Birth Date: | 10 June 1955 |
Education: | Kumasi Academy |
Profession: | Physician |
Office1: | Ghana Ambassador to the United States of America |
Predecessor: | Fritz Kwabena Poku |
Kwame Bawuah-Edusei | |
Office: | Ghana ambassador to Switzerland |
Term Start: | 2004 |
Term End: | 2006 |
Appointer: | John Kufuor |
Successor: | Kwabena Baah-Duodu |
Term Start1: | 5 September 2006 |
Term End1: | 7 December 2009 |
Appointer1: | John Kufuor |
Predecessor1: | Fritz Kwabena Poku |
Successor1: | Daniel Ohene Agyekum |
Kwame Bawuah-Edusei is a Ghanaian physician, entrepreneur and diplomat. He served as Ghana's ambassador to Switzerland from 2004 to 2006, and Ghana's Ambassador to the United States of America from 2006 to 2009.
Bawuah-Edusei was born 10 June 1955. He had his secondary education at Kumasi Academy, and proceeded to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he studied Human Biology.[1] [2] He later entered the Howard University Hospital where he had his medical residency in family medicine.
Bawuah-Edusei worked as a medical practitioner and an entrepreneur prior to his ambassadorial appointment. He was the head of Educe Medical Center, a hospital he founded in Alexandria, Virginia. He founded the Educe Capital LLC, a firm that focused on bio-medicine, real estate, and agro processing, and also founded the EO Group with his business partner George Yaw Owusu.[3] [4] In 2004 Bawuah-Edusei was appointed Ghana's ambassador to Switzerland.[5] [6] He served in this capacity until 2006 when he was appointed Ghana's Ambassador to the United States of America.[7] [8] [9] He held this office until 2009.
Bawuah-Edusei is married to Evangeline Bawuah-Edusei.[10]
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