Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei was born on 1 February 1969 and is the UN International Elections Commissioner, a Ghanaian lawyer and former chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana from 2015 until she was dismissed in June 2018 on grounds of financial malfeasance.
16 Facts About Charlotte Osei
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Charlotte Osei's dismissal has been challenged in the Supreme Court of Ghana in two separate writs.
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Charlotte Osei became the first female to serve in the office of the Electoral Commission of Ghana since the country's independence.
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Charlotte Osei was previously the chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education.
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Charlotte Osei had her secondary education at the Ghana National College in Cape Coast.
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Charlotte Osei proceeded to the University of Ghana where she obtained her LLB in 1992 and Ghana School of Law where she obtained and called to the bar in 1994.
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Charlotte Osei was a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon in 1994 to 1995.
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Charlotte Osei worked as a lawyer for Laryea Company in Accra from 1994 to 1997, then as Senior Legal Officer at the Ghana Commercial Bank from 1997 until 2002.
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Charlotte Osei lectured part time in commercial law at the university from 1997 until 2003.
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From 2002 until 2005, Osei worked as general counsel for Unibank Ghana, and then from 2005 until 2011 as founder and lead counsel for business lawyers, Prime Attorneys.
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Charlotte Osei was chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education from 2011 until 2015.
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Charlotte Osei was the first female to be appointed as the chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana.
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On 28 June 2018, Charlotte Osei was removed following a committee set up by the Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo to investigate complaints and corruption allegations leveled against her.
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The committee was set up based on the provision stipulated under Article 146 of the Ghanaian constitution, the recommendations of the committee required Charlotte Osei to be removed due to misbehavior pursuant to Article 146 of the constitution.
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Charlotte Osei indicated that she would respond to the accusations made against her later.
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Charlotte Osei was delaying her response due to the sudden death of the immediate Vice President of Ghana, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur.