Find out more about the leaders putting the 2024 Data Protection Africa Summit together.
Chairperson, Executive Board, Africa Digital Rights Hub, Ghana
Justice Samuel Kofi Date-Bah is currently Chairman of both the Electronic Communication Tribunal, and of the Law Reform Commission.
He was a member of the Supreme Court of Ghana from 2003 to 2013, before which he served as a Special Adviser (Legal) at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London from 1984 till 2003.
Prior to this, he was engaged as a law Professor at the Universities of Ghana, Nairobi, and Calabar (Nigeria), with visiting appointments at Lincoln College, Oxford, and the Yale Law School. Educated at the University of Ghana (LL.B, first class honors 1965), the Yale Law School (LL.M, 1967) and the London School of Economics (Ph.D.1969), he was called to the Ghana Bar in 1969.
Elected a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000, he is a member of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law and was a member of the UNIDROIT Working Group which formulated the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Professor Date-Bah has published extensively on Ghanaian law and international commercial law; his latest, a book entitled: Reflections on the Supreme Court of Ghana (2015).
After retiring from the bench, he remained Chairman of the Ghana Law Reform Commission and the Data Protection Commission of Ghana till January 2017.
He Chaired the National Data Protection Conferences held in Accra in 2016 and 2017. He was re-appointed Chairman of the Law Reform Commission in 2017. He was decorated with the Order of the Volta in 2015.
Commercial Lawyer and Data Protection Officer, Uganda
Priscilla Mutebi is a highly experienced commercial lawyer with 16 years’ post-qualification experience. She has a combined 13 years’ experience as a Company Secretary at Eaton Towers Uganda Limited and Huawei Technologies (Uganda) Co. Ltd. She is also a Board Advisor to the Data Privacy Association of Uganda, Prison Gates Chaplaincy Mission Chaplaincy (part of her probono service to indigent prisoners), a community school- Esukanesi Memorial Primary School and her residential condominium association.
Priscilla has particular experience in the following areas:
She contributed to the review Uganda’s Domestic Violence Act, through Forum for African Women Educationists (FAWE) and advised FAWE on data protection compliance and to the data protection compliance program of International Justice Mission as a fellow.
Priscilla is an Advocate of the High Court of Uganda with an LLB from Makerere University, an MBA from Edinburgh Business School and is CIPP/E qualified.
She loves God, friends, family, travel and swimming. She also has a penchant for learning: she recently completed a three months’ training with Journey to the Boardroom.
Personal Data Protection Director, Personal Data Protection Office, Uganda
Stella is an advocate and currently work with the Personal Data Protection Office as the National Personal Data Protection Director in the Personal Data Protection Office. The Personal Data Protection office is an independent office set up under National Information Technology Authority, Uganda (NITA-U) to be responsible for personal data protection in Uganda.
She is responsible for the management and operationalisation of the Personal Data Protection Office and are the national focal point for monitoring and assurance of matters related to the implementation of the Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019.
She is a practising advocate with 28 years’ experience with the bulk of it being on policy and regulatory matters in the Public Sector. 13 years of this experience has been in the ICT sector where she has made tremendous contribution to regulation of the ICT sector and implementation of ICT laws in Uganda besides other roles.
Prior to this appointment, she worked as the Director, Regulation and Legal Services at the National Information Technology Authority, Uganda (NITA-U), Deputy Corporation Secretary, National Social Security Fund, Uganda and has held other positions in the private and public sector. She is a mentor with particular interest in the empowerment of women, and a Rotarian.
She holds a Master of Laws (University of London UK), Post graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management (Uganda Management Institute), Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (Law Development Centre, Kampala) and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) (Makerere University).
She is a GIAC Certified Professional: Law of Data Security and Investigations (GLEG), and an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Manager. She is a member of the AU Working Group on the Harmonisation of Data Protection/Data Localisation policy and regulation in Africa.
Senior Partner, Nsiah Akuetteh & Co, Ghana
Teki Akuetteh is an ICT/Telecom Lawyer, a Privacy/Data Protection Consultant and Senior Partner at a law firm based in Accra, Ghana. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Africa Digital Rights Hub, a member of the UN Global Pulse Privacy Advisory Group, and a non-resident fellow of the Center for Global Development. Previously, Teki has worked for the Government of Ghana in the development of several key legislations 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). She was also the first Executive Director of the Data Protection Commission of Ghana. Teki 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.