Elsie Addo Awadzi: Ring the bell for gender equality 2019

Keynote address by Ms Elsie Addo Awadzi, Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, at the Ghana Stock Exchange event "Ring the Bell for Gender Equality 2019", in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation, Accra, 11 March 2019.

The views expressed in this speech are those of the speaker and not the view of the BIS.

The Chairperson

The Managing Director, Deputy M.D., and staff of the Ghana Stock Exchange

The Country Director of the IFC

Distinguished ladies and gentlemen

It is a great honour to be invited to speak at this august event to commemorate International Women's Day 2019! It is humbling to share this moment with my good old friends at the Ghana Stock Exchange with whom I labored over the years to develop various aspects of Ghana's capital market infrastructure. I am also humbled to stand here today on behalf of all the women (many of whom are in this room today including some from the BoG) and others who are not here today but who have devoted their time, energy, intellect, and other resources to advance economic development in Ghana in their own small way, sometimes at great personal sacrifice.