Elizabeth Dansoa Osei

Elizabeth Dansoa Osei is a distinguished public policy professional, education governance specialist, and research practitioner whose work spans Africa, Europe, and Latin America. With a career rooted in evidence-based policymaking, equity-driven reform, and institutional transformation, she brings a decade of experience across government, international organisations, academia, and global development institutions.

She currently serves as a Research and Policy Evaluation Officer at the UK's Office for Standards in Education, where she contributes to national education quality assurance through rigorous policy analysis, evaluation design, and system-level research.

Her global policy footprint includes roles at UNESCO in Latin America where she conducted cross-national research for the Global Trends in Higher Education Report; Preston Consults, where she supported economic reforms across Nigeria's trade, investment and industry sector; and PwC Ghana, where she led mixed-methods research for UNICEF, UK's FCDO, and national ministries, contributing to major sector analyses, and STEM policy frameworks.

Earlier in her career, Elizabeth contributed to policy development and institutional strengthening within Ghana's public sector, working with the Ministry of Works and Housing and the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation. She also served as a Youth Advisory Committee Member to Ghana's Ministry of Gender on the development of the Child and Family Welfare Policy.

Her policy insights have been featured at global platforms such as the 21st Steering Committee of the UNECE on Education for Sustainable Development (Geneva), Education World Forum (London), the Future We Want Global Initiative for Young Leaders (New York), the Downing Annual Conference (Cambridge), ECOSOC Youth Forum (New York), and the Sustainable Development in Africa Conference (Denver, USA).

Beyond her professional roles, she is a committed leader and advocate. She founded Your Child Today, Our President Tomorrow, an initiative that has provided academic support and mentorship to students in Ghana and beyond. Elizabeth is a proud scholar of H.E John Agyekum Kufuor, a Weidenfeld Hoffmann Scholar, a Clinton Global Initiative Fellow, a YALI West Africa Fellow, a UNICEF Innocenti Youth Foresight Circle Member and a UN Millennium Fellow.

She holds a master's degree in public policy from the University of Oxford and a first-class degree in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Ghana. Recognised as a dynamic and principled voice in public policy, Elizabeth continues to shape conversations on inclusive development.