Esi Awuah
Esi Awuah is a Ghanaian academic and former vice chancellor of the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Sunyani, Ghana. Early life and education Esi Awuah is the eldest child of Emmanuel Broni Asare and Margaret Annan. Her father is from Akim Oda, Ghana and served as the Deputy Chief Conservator of Forestry in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions. Her mother, Margaret Annan, is a retired nurse's aid is from the village of Gomoa Dago in Ghana. Awuah completed her ordinary level education at Akim Oda in 1973 and finished her advanced level education at Aburi Girls' Secondary School in 1975. She earned a Bachelor of Science at the University of Science and Technology (renamed Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST) in Kumasi. After completing her national service at the Forest Products Research Institute in Kumasi (now the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana), she took a job as a research assistant at the Department of Civil Engineering. In 1981, Awuah obtained a World Health Organization scholarship to study environmental sciences in the United States at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. In 1998, she was awarded a fellowship