BRIEF PROFILE OF DIANA ASONABA DAPAAH
Diana Asonaba Dapaah is a Deputy Attorney-General and Deputy Minister for Justice of the Republic of Ghana.
Until her appointment as a Deputy Attorney-General & Deputy Minister for Justice, Ms. Dapaah was a lecturer in law at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) where she taught Corporate Law and Governance, Public International Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), and Human Rights Law.
Prior to her appointment, Ms. Dapaah was also a Senior Associate of Sam Okudzeto & Associates, one of the leading law firms in Ghana, where she brought her over a decade experience to bear in handling complex cases before the Superior Courts and lower courts of Ghana. She is one of the founders of the Ghana ADR Hub and served as its Vice President. Ms. Dapaah also served as an arbitral tribunal secretary and subsequently as an arbitrator with the Ghana Arbitration Centre.
As a trainer in ADR and Human Rights as well as a World Bank certified trainer in corporate governance, she has trained lawyers, judges and ACCA members in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Ms. Dapaah has also served as a consultant for both local and international institutions including the EU’s Accountability, Rule of law and Anti-Corruption Programme (ARAP) and the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Ghana. In June 2020, Ms. Dapaah was named one of Africa’s 50 Most Promising Young Arbitration Practitioners by the Association of Young Arbitrators. In 2019, Ms. Dapaah started a DANIDA-funded PhD program in business and human rights at the University of Cape Town, focusing on access to remedy for business-related human rights abuses towards ensuring responsible business conduct.
Ms. Dapaah graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with first class honours in law and the Fordham University School of Law where she graduated with an LL.M (cum laude).
Ms. Dapaah is called to the Ghana and New York bar.
