Kadijah Amoah

Chief Executive Officer Aker Energy Ghana Limited

Ms. Kadijah Amoah is the Chief Executive Officer of Pecan Energies Ghana Limited(Formerly, Aker Energy Ghana Limited). She is the first Ghanaian woman to lead an oil and gas exploration and production company.   

She is a member of the Executive Management Team of Pecan Energies in Norway and holds directorships in AGM Petroleum Ghana and Aker Ghana Investment Company. She is also a council member of the Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber.  

Prior to joining Aker Energy which has been renamed Pecan Energies, Ms. Amoah worked as Head of Investments and Business Development at the Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana. She was the Government of Ghana lead of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and Government of Ghana lead of the U.K Ghana Business Council.    

Ms. Amoah holds a B.A. (Hons) in Political Science and Sociology, LLB (Hons), and an M.Sc. in International Business from the University of Ghana. She also holds a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Institute of Legal Practice and Development in Rwanda, a Post Graduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation and an Executive Masters in Business Administration from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.  

Ms. Amoah is an alumnus of the International Leader’s Programme of the U.K Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Raisa Program by the Spanish government. She is an Eisenhower Fellow and a member of Oriel Law Society, Oriel College.