 Irene Duncan ADANUSA |
Irene Duncan-Adanusa is a Vice-President of Education International and the General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT).
She was born in 1953 in Takoradi, Ghana and entered the teaching profession in 1976 after obtaining a Bachelor of Arts (Education) from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
In 1982 she completed a post-graduate Diploma in Communication Studies from the University of Ghana, Accra, and a certificate course in Educational Planning and Development at the University of Massachussets (Amherst) in 1990. She obtained a Masters degree in Employment and Labour Studies from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1997.
Irene Duncan-Adanusa’s work experience includes classroom teaching, office administration, public relations, trade unionism, service on various national committees and Boards of companies. She has a special interest in the development of girls and female teachers.
Mrs. Duncan-Adanusa worked as a secondary school teacher between 1976 and 1981, and then worked in the Public Relations unit of the Ghana Education Service Headquarters. She began work at the Higher Education Division of the Ministry of Education in 1988 as a programme cocoordinator when the national Tertiary Reform Programme of the education sector began.
Her trade union career started in 1993 when she was elected as a Deputy General Secretary of GNAT, assuming the role of General Secretary in 2002; the first female to occupy this position. GNAT is a national teachers union representing 165,000 members at the pre-tertiary level of education.
Mrs. Duncan-Adanusa was elected a Vice-President of Education International (EI) at its 5th World Congress held in Berlin, Germany in July 2007. Prior to this she had been re-elected as the President of the Education International Africa Region (EIRAF) executive committee.
