ABOUT ME

Victoria L. Hamah

Victoria Lakshmi Hamah is a Former Deputy Minister for Communication. She was appointed to the office by His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana, in the year 2013.

Victoria Hamah is a doctoral candidate in Public Administration and Policy Management at the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), researching the parliamentary committees' dynamics on gender and policy outcomes.  She has submitted the final draft of her thesis for the perusal and consideration of her supervisory team. Her general research interest is to understand how gender power relations underpin policy outcomes. Her specific areas of research interest include Politics, Inequality, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, and E-economy.

Prior to her ongoing Doctoral studies, Victoria Hamah had a BA in Political Science with Philosophy and an MA in Social Policy from the University of Ghana, Legon; an Executive Certificate from the University of Oxford, Said Business School in the United Kingdom, and a certificate from the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway.

Ms Hamah was awarded an Erasmus+ Credit Mobility scholarship as part of her Doctoral research to participate in an international exchange program for two months at the Mendel University in Brno, Brno - Czech Republic, under the joint supervisory team of Prof. Albert Ahanken, an Associate Professor at UGBS and Dr Dennis Nchor, an Assistant Professor at Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic.

In the past 8 years, Victoria Hamah has worked as the Executive Director of the Progressive Organization for Women’s Advancement (POWA) and collaborated with the University of Ghana Center for Social Policy Studies [UG-CSPS] to engage in researching, designing, developing, and delivering advocacy focused on gender inclusivity in politics.

Victoria Hamah has also had a successful career in Television and Radio as a presenter and producer.

Between the period of 2008 to 2012, Victoria Hamah actively engaged in grassroots political mobilization serving as a Branch Women’s Organizer in the Ablekuma Central Constituency of the NDC; Member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Government Communications Team; Member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Youth Campaign Team for the 2008 General Elections; worked as a Presiding Officer (Election Officer) for the Electoral
Commission of Ghana during the General Elections in 2008.

As a student activist, she rose to become an elected Executive Officer of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), serving as the National Women’s Commissioner in 2005.

Her public spiritedness has driven Victoria Hamah to participate in several public fora and discussions. In line with this passion and commitment to contribute to public discourse, she has authored several people-centered opinion articles on gender, education, youth, policy and economy.

Victoria Hamah is a seeker of spiritual truth and enlightenment; this quest has led her to study under the divine guidance of her Guru, His Holiness Swami Ghananand Saraswati (the First Black African to be initiated into the Holy Order of Sannyasis Renunciates) from 2009 when she encountered him, until his eternal transition in 2016.