Winnifred Selby
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Winnifred Selby | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | social entrepreneur |
| Organization | EPF Educational Empowerment Initiative |
| Awards | inducted into the Royal Institute of Singapore |
Winnifred Kyei Selby is a young Ghanaian social entrepreneur and the president of the EPF Educational Empowerment Initiative based in Kumasi, Ashanti Region of Ghana. She co-founded the Ghana Bamboo Bike Initiative with Bernice Dapaah at the age of 15.[1][2][3] At age 17, she established another business, the Afrocentric Bamboo Initiative.[4][5] In 2018, she became the first Ghanaian to be inducted into the Royal Institute of Singapore.[6]
Selby attended Joy Standard College.[7] She is also an alumna of Cambridge University Leading For Change Executive Education and Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society.[8] She co-founded the Ghana Bamboo Bike Initiative with Bernice Dapaah at the age of 15 and the Afrocentric Bamboo Initiative at the age of 17 right after completing her secondary education.[4][9]
Awards and achievements
- Anzisha Prize Fellow[10]
- World Economic Forum Global shaper[11]
- Board member of Dawadawa Impact Investment Fund
- Board member of the SHE Scholarships Fund of the EPF Educational Empowerment Initiative.
- Finalist of the 2014 Cartier Women's Initiative Awards[5][12]
- Honoured Airtel Touching Lives 2014 Award[13]
- She was honoured 2015 World of Children Award in New York[14][1]
- Winner of the 2016 New African Woman in Science, Technology & Innovation Award[10]
- Winner of the 2017 Queen's Young Leader Award[6][15][16][17][18]
- Featured in Forbes as one of the social entrepreneurs in Africa to watch[5]
- First Ghanaian to be inducted into the Royal Institute of Singapore[19][6]
- She has hosted a TED talk with TEDx Accra[20]
- Invited by Former President of the United States, Barack Obama to be part of the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, Kenya[13]
