Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum
Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has been invited to be part of a High-Level Advisory Group for Mission 4.7, a new global initiative to facilitate the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) on education and target 4.7.
Mission 4.7 is a partnership between the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), United Nations Economic Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Global Citizen, and the Centre for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
Dr. Adutwum would be delivering a virtual keynote address on July 20, 2021 between 09:00am and 10:00am during one of the group’s meetings.
An invitation letter was signed by Jeffrey D. Sachs, President, United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Stephanie Giannini, Assistant Secretary-General, UNESCO on behalf of Audrey Azoulay, Patron, Mission 4.7 and Director-General UNESCO.
The Mission 4.7 will be led by two Patrons: Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, the 8th Secretary-General of the UN and Audrey Azoulay, the Director-General of UNESCO.
The Advisory Group on the other hand would be co-chaired by Ms. Stephanie Giannini, the Assistant Director-General of UNESCO, Mr. Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah, the Chairman of the Sunway Group, Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, the Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the representative of Pope Francis and Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, the President of SDSN.
In his response to the invitation, Dr. Adutwum reaffirmed his readiness to be part in the project to ensure education continues to flourish.
The Education Minister said the assemblage of such a powerful team of education experts would go a long way to gather the best of ideas and visions which could bring great change to the world through the transformation of education.
Dr. Adutwum assured the world of his preparedness to spend quality time towards the planning, discussion and implementation of any good vision for the good of the world.
Background
Dr. Adutwum, who is also a Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe in the Ashanti Region, is an educationist who has spent all his life teaching, studying and managing education at different levels and in different parts of the world.
This makes his appointment to the world-class platform not a surprise to most Ghanaians, especially looking at his performance in the past five years as Deputy Education Minister and his recent elevation to the substantive position of Minister for Education.