Francis M. ADZAKPA-AKOTO (PE GhIE)
-Engineering &Project Manager

Ing. Adzakpa-Akoto Francis is an environmental sanitation expert with a civil Engineering background. He has over nineteen (19) years of civil engineering construction supervision and 9 nine years of experience in landfill design & construction, and Solid waste Transfer Stations.

The notable amongst projects he has executed is the Kpone landfill decommissioning project, using the state-of-the-art technology known as the Landfill Closure Turf for the final cap, the first of its kind in Africa. His passion is to research and design a simplified physicochemical landfill leachate treatment system for developing countries. Prior to his current re-appointment at Waste Landfills Company Limited, he was the general manager for Landfill Technologies Limited who superintended the daily operation of the organization. Ing. Adzakpa-Akoto has also taken several waste management and related courses and programmes in Germany, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, Kenya, etc.

He holds an MSc. In Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Ghana and a BSc. in Civil Engineering & Management from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), United Kingdom. He is a professional member of the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE).

Emmanuel Anum Tetteh
Coordinator 

BEATRICE BORTELEY KWEI-KUMAH

Human Capital & Administration Manager

Mrs Beatrice Borteley Kwei-Kumah is a Human Resource Professional with over eleven (11) years in Human Resource generalist affairs. She is currently the Human Capital and Admin Manager for Waste Landfills Company Limited, a Landfill Operation company. As part of her role in Waste Landfills, she provides a full range of Human Capital Services for the subsidiary, drives and manages human capital programmes, and provides Human Resource Centre of Excellence services. She has an extensive background in human resource generalist affairs, including employee recruitment and retention, staff development, mediation, conflict resolution, benefits and compensation, HR records management and HR policies development.

Before her appointment at Waste Landfills, Beatrice was the Head of Human Resources of Local Enterprises and Skills Development Limited, a public-private initiative introduced by the Jospong Group of Companies and the Government of Ghana to bridge the unemployment gap in Ghana. She worked from April 2011 to January 2019. She served as the Secretary to the Board of Directors for Local Enterprises and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP) in 2012 and was appointed a Board Member for LESDEP & Bell Global Management Limited in 2016.

Beatrice has had a series of training, including Corporate Governance; Institute of Directors, Accra (2016); The Management Boot Camp; Executive Education, Citi Business News, Accra (2016); High-Performance Leadership; Emotional Intelligence Program, MCA Training International, South Africa (2015); Leading Culture Change; Aligning Culture and Strategy, StratAfrique, Simango Consulting Company, Accra (2013); Fair and Unfair Termination of Employment; The Law and Practice, Gamey & Gamey Academy of Mediation/Pulse Institute, Africa, Accra (2012).

Beatrice holds an MA in Management and Administration from the University of Ghana Business School and a BBA in Human Resource Management from Valley View University. She is a Member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Chartered Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners (CIHRM), Ghana.