Nkechi Owoo
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Prof. Nkechi Srodah Owoo is Ghanaian economist and academic serving as a professor of Economics at the University of Ghana.[1] Her research is focused on poverty and inequality, health and demographic economics, gender economics and climate change in developing countries, especially in Sub-saharan Africa.[2][3]
Prof. Owoo has collaborated with international institutions, such as the World Bank, International Labor Organization and Food and Agricultural Organization, and has gained recognition for her contribution in development economics and policy research.[4]
In 2025, she became the first woman to be promoted into full professorship in economics at the University of Ghana, making a significant milestone breakthrough in the institution's history.[5][6]
Prof. Owoo was born into a family of medical doctors where she was encouraged to follow suite. Although she considered medicine, she later discovered her comparative advantage lay elsewhere. Through the encouragement of her grandfather, Bossoh Kpohanu who had studied economics himself, provided an alternative for her, since he had made a fulfilling career as a results. Prof. Owoo had her first encounter to the subject in high school and become fascinated by its simple logic which made sense and could relate to the various concepts taught. Her interest deepened through undergraduate and graduate studies where she admired the deliberateness of assumptions and the predictability of the conclusions that characterized economic analysis.[7]