Gerald Sowah
Ghana
Public Policy (MPP), 2016
Wadham College, Oxford
Funding: Louis Dreyfus
Gerald graduated with Honours from Earlham College (USA) in 2014 with a Bachelors Degree in Politics. At Earlham, he received the Peter W. Birge Award, given to exceptional students majoring in Politics, while actively pursuing research on a wide range of topics from British Colonial Health Policy and US Space Policy to African Ethics. He also designed and taught a college-level credit course on Cinematic Portraits of Africa during his Senior Year. He spent his third year as a Visiting Student reading PPE at Oxford, during which time he took on a number of roles at the Oxford Union. Since graduating, he has worked in the Office of the President of the Republic of Ghana, specifically look at how government can be restructured to deliver greater efficiency.
He also served as the Resource Manager to the Ghana Volunteer Program. He previously interned with Google, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the City of Richmond, Indiana – Department of Law where he helped draft city legislature. Gerald pursued an MPP to build on his interest in Infrastructure Policy. He is keen to identify new and sustainable policy approaches that tackle the myriad of infrastructural development challenges facing most Sub-Saharan African governments, in order to stimulate job creation and economic recovery.
Currently, Gerald works in Content Policy at Facebook, Dublin, Ireland.
