 Mrs. Ninsin has experience in several professional areas. She has worked with the Ghana library board in both adult and children sections, for eight years. The last( children’s library she worked in was the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST) children’s library in Kumasi. She also worked at the Balme Library University of Ghana in the Africana section before moving out of Ghana. When the use of ICT in libraries was relatively new in Ghana she took a bold step of evaluating one of the few computerized information systems in the country which was the GHASTINET project of The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). She holds both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Law from the Robert Kennedy College Zurich in Switzerland, and a diploma in Librarianship from the University of Ghana, Legon.
She is the president and founder of Hope International Trust in Zimbabwe a non profit organization that assists ex-women offenders and juveniles in difficult circumstances. She is the President and founder of Dawn of Hope –Ghana, another non- a profit organization that specializes in building libraries for disadvantaged areas. She briefly worked with the African of health and Human Rights Promoters-Ghana (CAPSDH) as the Secretary-General and currently she is the co-founder of the Alliance for Human Rights and Development Advocates-Ghana (AHRDA), a non-governmental organization headquartered in Accra, Ghana. Apart from being a co-founder she is the Secretary General of the organization.
She has also worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in Accra, Ghana as Library Assistant and later as Law Librarian of the Ghana School of Law.
In 2005 she was appointed visiting scholar of the Queensland University of technology, faculty of law library where she gave lectures on the library system in Ghana and also researched (on the role of the law library in facilitating learning and research in professional legal education, she compared the Ghana school of Law, library and the Clayton UTZ Law library of the faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane Australia.
Whilst in Brisbane she did work study visits in the following organizations
- The Queensland Law Society
- The Supreme Court Library
- The Justice and Attorney Generals Department
- The Parliamentary Library in Brisbane
- The Council for Law Reporting Brisbane
- The Legal Aid Board Brisbane
She also worked in a number of law firms and she has a lot of experience in managing information. Recently, her research areas are Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital. She is also a member of the American Library Association, American Association on College and Research Libraries and of the Association of Knowledge Work (AOK). She has taken courses in entrepreneurship, leadership, knowledge, project management and Intellectual Capital.
Until her job as Secretary- General of African Commission on health and human Rights promoters she was the University Librarian for Ashesi University College.
She is also the Director of Programs for the Einstein International Schools and Colleges, a private school in East Legon, where she also teaches Information Literacy.
She has several publications to her credit. For her postgraduate studies, she specialized in International Taxation Law. She is a conference speaker in several countries of the world. Her research interests are human rights, women’s rights, intellectual capital and intellectual property. She is also a member of Women in Law and Development for Africa (WILDAF). She is also a member of the Prisons Fellowship International.
Mrs Ninsin brings to the organization her in-depth and rich experience as a human rights activist. |
