THE EXECUTIVE FACILITATORS MANAGEMENT COUNCIL

Ambassador Novisi Abaidoo is an accomplished career diplomat with thirty-two years of diligent service in the Ghana Foreign Service. She has an enviable and proven track record of excellence, dedication, hard work, rare negotiation skills, and adept at handling diplomatic, strategic, operational, administrative and oversight aspects of any assignment requiring exceptional impactful results and excellence.

She brings to the role of a member of the Executive Facilitators Management Council (EFMC) of the Africa Future Leaders Institute of Global Affairs (AFLIGA), decades of diplomatic, higher education and training arenas, the latter becoming one of her current principal fields of operation, following her retirement from her illustrious diplomatic career.

Ambassador Abaidoo also joins AFLIGA, after a distinguished foreign service career at the national, regional and international levels, as a foreign service officer of Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. Ambassador Abaidoo’s meritorious diplomatic career from 1987 to 2019, included duty tours in France, Belgium and the Republic of Benin, culminating in her appointment as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ghana to Benin from 2014 to 2015 and later, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ghana to Belgium, Luxembourg, and the EU, from 2016 to 2018.

As a career diplomat in the Ghana Foreign Service spanning over three decades, Ambassador Abaidoo also headed some of the key directorates at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ghana, including the Multilateral Relations Bureau. She played a pivotal role in policy formulation, providing excellent policy briefs to guide Ghana‘s inputs into her participation at the UN and in other intergovernmental as well as international organisations, of which Ghana was a member, and chairing and sitting on sensitive intergovernmental committees in the promotion of Ghana’s relations and interests in the Comity of nations. This included the country’s participation in the work of the United Nations and its agencies , the European Union, the Commonwealth, La Francophonie , the Non-Aligned Movement, African Caribbean and Pacific Group of Countries (ACP) and other international organisations.

Her legacy and impact as Ambassador in the work of the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of Countries (ACP) during her duty tour with the EU /ACP, is recognized in her successful organisation of the first historic consultations on Cashew with Ambassadors of Cashew producing countries /friends of Cashew at the Ghana Embassy in Brussels and chairing the first ever Committee of Ambassadors meeting of Cashew- producing countries in tandem with her actively driving negotiations for the then Post -Cotonou Partnership Agreement between the ACP Countries and the EU.

After retiring from the Ghana’s Foreign Service, Ambassador Novisi Abaidoo has served on boards, been affiliated to several organizations and institutions where she remains an ardent driving force for socio-economic change, leveraging diplomacy to bridge gaps and empower future global leaders. She is an active advocate on such matters through participation in leadership and diplomatic training programmes, conference speeches, corporate workshops and mentoring activities, where she inspires and equips individuals to become catalysts for positive change.

Ambassador Abaidoo holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree and a Diploma in Education from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and a Master of Arts degree in International Affairs, from the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. She is fluent in English, French, and a number of Ghanaian languages.

Ambassador Novisi Abaidoo is married and blessed with three adult children