Teki Akuetteh

Teki is the Founder and Executive Director of the Africa Digital Rights Hub LBG, ' a think and action tank' on digital rights issues in Africa. As Ghana’s first Data Protection Commission’s Executive Director, she facilitated and implemented the Data Protection Act. She is also a Senior Partner at Nsiah Akuetteh & Co. a law firm based in Accra, Ghana that specializes in information technology and telecommunication law in Africa.
Teki is an IT and Telecom's lawyer whose work for nearly two decades spans, privacy and data protection, technology, data governance, digital economy, cybersecurity, child online safety across various African countries. She had also previously worked for the Government of Ghana in the development of several key legislation for the ICT sector including the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843), Electronic Communications Act, 2008 (Act 775) and Electronic Transactions Act, 2012 (Act 772); and worked in various capacities with bodies such as the World Bank, EU, GIZ, ECOWAS and the African Union.
Teki has also sat on various international advisory bodies including the Data Governance Committee of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence; Global Privacy Assembly and the Think20 Taskforce on Digital Transformation. She is currently the Board Chair of the Data Protection Commission, Ghana.
She holds an LLM in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow – Scotland and a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Political Science from the University of Ghana (Legon), Accra – Ghana.
Teki is also an ardent advocate of the environment and loves to spend pastime with family. When she is not with family you are bound to see her with her dogs, traveling, gardening, cooking, exercising or dancing.