Regine Ankoma-Bempong Associate – Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
In celebration of our 40th anniversary, each month we profile past employees who started their careers in development at Imani. Meet Regine Ankoma-Bempong, who currently serves as an Associate at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in Accra, Ghana. She joined Imani in 2016 as a Princeton in Africa Fellow based in the Malawi office.
For a year, Regine supported the projects team with research, proposal development and stakeholder engagement. She was given the opportunity to develop her skills as a quantitative data analyst, in particular when she worked on the Ethical Tea Partnership Farmer Business School M&E review in Cholo. She highlights this project as one of her most notable assignments given that it was a review of the first Farmer Business School pilot project in Malawi. From 2015 to 2018, 1 200 female farmers have been trained through the Ethical Tea Partnership Farmer Business Schools in Malawi and Rwanda.
After leaving Imani, Regine’s career continued to flourish. She transitioned into different roles at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration and Africa Foresight Group .
In a recent interview with Regine – who at the time worked as a Programme Manager at the Food and Drugs Authority of Ghana – she shares some reflections on her time at Imani and the impact it had on her career path. In her own words;
“There’s so much from Imani that I carry over into my life. And I think it’s definitely shaped my career path… it shaped my decision that this is really the work that I want to do. [In the development space], firms like Imani provide that expertise, that muscle that takes some burden off the local entities to just do their work.”
Have a listen to her interview with Chido Myambo.