Araba Botchway

Background

About Araba Botchway

Araba has 18 years of experience in scholarships and grant management, as well as recruitment of students across Africa. Araba joined Ashesi in 2013 as the Director for Development and later moved into her current role. She leads the recruitment of brilliant and talented students with leadership potential from across the African continent to come study at Ashesi. She also serves as the Project Lead for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Ashesi and has oversight of implementation and reporting to the Foundation. As a member of Ashesi’s Communication Committee, Araba helps develop innovative strategies to give visibility to the university and partners such as the Mastercard Foundation. Prior to Ashesi, Araba worked as the Program Manager for the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (Ford IFP), West Africa. Araba is a member of the High Achieving Low Income (HALI) Access Network. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in French with Spanish from the University of Ghana, a certificate in Communications and Marketing from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, a Post-graduate diploma in Marketing of Services from the Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands, and an Executive MBA from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) among others.