Kwame Bawuah-Edusei
{{Short description|Ghanaian diplomat (born 1955)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1955|6|10|df=y}}
| education = Kumasi Academy
| alma_mater = {{unbulleted|Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology|Howard University}}
| occupation = {{unbulleted|diplomat|entrepreneur}}
| profession = Physician
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| office1 = Ghana Ambassador to the United States of America
| predecessor = Fritz Kwabena Poku
| office = Ghana ambassador to Switzerland
| term_start = 2004
| term_end = 2006
| nominator =
| appointer = John Kufuor
| successor = Kwabena Baah-Duodu
| image = Kwame Bawuah-Edusei 207-DP-9437A-Ghana2125 (cropped).jpg
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| term_start1 = 5 September 2006
| term_end1 = 7 December 2009
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| appointer1 = John Kufuor
| predecessor1 = Fritz Kwabena Poku
| successor1 = Daniel Ohene Agyekum
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| caption = Bawuah-Edusei in 2007
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Kwame Bawuah-Edusei (born 10 June 1955) is a Ghanaian physician, entrepreneur and diplomat. He served as Ghana's ambassador to Switzerland from 2004 to 2006, and Ghana's Ambassador to the United States of America from 2006 to 2009.
Early life and education
Bawuah-Edusei was born 10 June 1955. He had his secondary education at Kumasi Academy, and proceeded to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he studied Human Biology.{{Cite book|last=Bayor|first=Ronald H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YN9jC2_7UHYC&q=Bawuah-Edusei+encyclopedia&pg=PA790|title=Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans [4 volumes]|date=2011-07-22|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-35787-9|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=allAfrica.com: myAfrica|url=http://myafrica.allafrica.com/view/people/main/id/07QECJlRH1gIRbYp.html|access-date=2020-11-25|website=myafrica.allafrica.com}} He later entered the Howard University Hospital where he had his medical residency in family medicine.
Career
Bawuah-Edusei worked as a medical practitioner and an entrepreneur prior to his ambassadorial appointment. He was the head of Educe Medical Center, a hospital he founded in Alexandria, Virginia. He founded the Educe Capital LLC, a firm that focused on bio-medicine, real estate, and agro processing, and also founded the EO Group with his business partner George Yaw Owusu.{{Cite book|last=Obeng-Odoom|first=Franklin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJjOAwAAQBAJ&q=Kwame+Bawuah-Edusei&pg=PA53|title=Oiling the Urban Economy: Land, Labour, Capital, and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana|date=2014-06-13|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-68276-9|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Schnurr|first1=Matthew A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dfty_6savZcC&q=Kwame+Bawuah-Edusei&pg=PA121|title=Natural Resources and Social Conflict: Towards Critical Environmental Security|last2=Swatuk|first2=Larry A.|date=2012-03-02|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-29783-8|language=en}} In 2004, Bawuah-Edusei was appointed Ghana's ambassador to Switzerland.{{Cite book|last=Vieta|first=Kojo T.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wx0WAQAAIAAJ&q=Kwame+Bawuah-Edusei|title=Know Your Ministers: 2005-2009|date=2005|publisher=Flagbearers Publishers|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-2uRAAAAIAAJ&q=Kwame+Bawuah-Edusei|title=Surf Ghana Business Directory|date=2006|publisher=Surf Publications|language=en}} He served in this capacity until 2006 when he was appointed Ghana's Ambassador to the United States of America.{{Cite book|last=Perry|first=Penny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_EbmM-dxmYC&q=Kwame+Bawuah-Edusei|title=Federal Staff Directory 2009/Winter|date=2008-12-04|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-87289-251-4|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Print|first=Congress (U S. ) Joint Committee on|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-gEOunkrqqMC&q=Kwame+Bawuah-Edusei|title=Official Congressional Directory, 2009-2010: 111th Congress, Convened January 2009 (Paperback)|date=2010|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-16-083727-2|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Banks|first1=Arthur S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vXU_CplFBLYC&q=Kwame+Bawuah-Edusei|title=Political Handbook of the World 2008|last2=Overstreet|first2=William|last3=Muller|first3=Thomas|date=2008-04-15|publisher=CQ Press|isbn=978-0-87289-528-7|language=en}} He held this office until 2009.
Personal life
Book
Thrived Despite the Odds, 2019{{Cite book|last=Bawuah-Edusei|first=Kwame|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vn3CDwAAQBAJ&q=Thrived+Despite+the+Odds+Kwame+Bawuah-Edusei|title=Thrived Despite the Odds|date=11 November 2019 |publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-7340166-1-1|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Former Ghanaian Ambassador to the U.S. Dr. Kwame Bawuah-Edusei Launches Autobiography in the United States {{!}} AMIP News|url=https://amipnewsonline.org/?p=9963|access-date=2020-11-25|website=amipnewsonline.org}}{{Cite web|title=Dr. Kwame Bawuah-Edusei launches autobiography in US|url=https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/dr-kwame-bawuah-edusei-launches-autobiography-in-us.html|access-date=2020-11-25|website=Graphic Online|language=en-gb}}
See also
References
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Category:Ghanaian medical doctors
Category:Ambassadors of Ghana to Switzerland