Patrick Awuah is the founder and president of Ashesi University, a private, not-for-profit institution in Ghana.
Patrick was nominated as a Global Leader 2007 by the World Economic Forum; and in recognition of his service to Ghana, was awarded Membership of the Order of the Volta by His Excellency, President J.A. Kufuor in July 2007.
In 2009, he won the Microsoft Alumni Foundation “Integral Fellow” award and the John P. McNulty Prize from the Aspen Institute; and in 2010 he was awarded the Millenium Excellence Award for Educational Development in recognition of his exceptional leadership in the area of education.
He is a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative (a branch of the Aspen Global Leadership Network), a member of the United States Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the United States Tau Beta Pi honor society for excellence in engineering.
He holds bachelor degrees in Engineering and Economics from Swarthmore College, and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. In 2004, Swarthmore awarded Patrick an honorary doctorate in recognition of his leadership in African higher education. He also holds an honorary Doctor of Laws awarded by Babson College.