21 Facts About Mawuena Trebarh

Mawuena Adzo Trebarh was a Ghanaian business executive, investor and geologist.

Mawuena Trebarh was the first female Board Chair of Movenpick Ambassador Hotel Ghana.

Mawuena Trebarh was born in Ghana and attended a university in Nigeria.

Mawuena Trebarh's father, Ernest Dumor, is a retired professor of sociology and development studies, a former Electoral Commissioner and founding executive secretary and adviser to the National Identification Authority.

Mawuena Trebarh's mother, Cecilia Dumor, who died in 2008, was an educator, editor and publisher of secondary school textbooks.

Mawuena Trebarh's paternal grandfather, Michael Dumor, was a pioneer in the Catholic Education Project in the Volta Region beginning in the 1930s.

Mawuena Trebarh was the eldest of three children, and her siblings are the late Komla Afeke Dumor of the BBC and Dr Korshie Dumor, an internal medicine specialist and nephrologist based in the United States.

Mawuena Trebarh was a graduate of the University of Jos in Plateau State, Nigeria, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and Mining in September 1996.

Mawuena Trebarh later studied for an MBA in Management and Strategic Planning at the McCallum Graduate School of Business, Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 2002.

In 2020, Mawuena Trebarh was named as the deputy spokesperson to the John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress Election 2020 Campaign.

Mawuena Trebarh served as the spokesperson and Head of communications for the office of the vice-presidential candidate Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang.

Mawuena Trebarh was the first woman to be appointed substantive Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, from April 2013 to January 2017, where she was in charge of driving investment into the country.

From 2007 to 2011, Mawuena Trebarh held the position of Corporate Services Executive at MTN Ghana, where she was responsible for overseeing corporate communications, government and regulatory relations, the MTN Ghana Foundation, legal matters, and company secretarial duties.

Between 2003 and 2007, Mawuena Trebarh was the Manager of Communications for Newmont Ghana Ltd, where she developed and oversaw the execution of the world's largest gold producer's public relations and communications strategies in Ghana, the West African sub-region and the African continent in general.

Mawuena Trebarh promoted and maintained the company's image within Ghana through communications strategies including regular interaction with the news media, trade and interest groups, government officials and other stakeholders, as well as Newmont management within Ghana and at the corporate level.

In 1996, Mawuena Trebarh began her career at Ashanti Goldfields Company Ltd, where she was the first female underground exploration geologist.

Mawuena Trebarh was then invited to the Resource Evaluation Department, where she assisted in the generation of three-dimensional computer models of gold deposits in Ghana, Guinea, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso.

Mawuena Trebarh worked as an Investor Relations Officer at Ashanti Goldfields, where she was responsible for retaining content expert status on strategic planning and new business development initiatives, acting as primary interface between the company and international investment community, stock exchanges and senior analysts from Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, CIBC, among others.

Mawuena Trebarh was responsible for tracking international reactions to corporate announcements, made recommendations regarding market sentiments, counseling management on responses.

Mawuena Trebarh called for changes to business practices in Ghana and increased female representation in work and media.

Mawuena Trebarh died on 10 April 2024, at the age of 52.