Josephine Ofosu-Mensah Ababio is a lecturer, a researcher, and a financial and investment consultant. She holds a PhD and an MPhil/MBA in Finance from the University of Ghana, an M.Ed. Administration in Higher Education from the University of Cape Coast, and a Master’s degree in Ministry (Counselling) from the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon.

She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Economics from the University of Ghana as well as Advanced and Ordinary level certificates. She also holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from IPMA (UK), a Securities Industry Course from the Ghana Stock Exchange, and a Final Diploma in Professional Administration from CIMC, Ghana.

She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Professional Administrators and the International Professional Managers Association (IPMA), UK. She has taught, supervised, examined, and mentored both undergraduate and graduate students for over a decade. She also has over a decade of industry and administrative work experience from Central University, Federal Express Ghana Ltd., Empretec Ghana Foundation, as well as exposure to and expertise in trans-disciplinary projects. She is an investment, portfolio, and strategic financial management consultant and has consulted on personal and institutional financial capacity building. She serves on church committees and some university committees.

She has published in peer-reviewed finance, economics, and development-related journals. She serves as a reviewer for reputable international journals, including Cogent Economics and Finance of Taylor and Francis, the Journal of Public Affairs of Wiley, the Future Business Journal of Springer, the Singapore Economic Review of World Scientific, and Cogent Business and Management of Taylor and Francis, and has made several presentations at local and international conferences. Her research interests span financial inclusion, financial literacy, digital finance, institutional quality, financial development, inclusive development, risk/portfolio management, private investment, human values/counselling, COVID-19, finance, and development, and these areas ultimately connect to the accomplishment of the principle of inclusive finance-development.

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Research Gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Josephine-Ofosu-Mensah-Ababio-2