Dr. Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom is a lawyer by profession and the Director of Training at the Institute for African Women in Law. Maame is also a law lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She is an alumna of the U.S. Department’s Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence programme (2023-24) where she was based in Howard University as a Visiting Professor teaching subjects on law, gender and politics. She has guest lectured at other universities, including Georgetown University, George Washington University, Brandeis University and the University of Dayton.

She holds an LLB from KNUST, Ghana, an LLM in International Law and Justice from Fordham University School of Law, New York, USA and a PhD in law from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Maame has published, consulted, and made several conference presentations worldwide on International Law and International Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Women and the Law, and Law, Technology and Development.