Find out more about the leaders putting the 2024 Data Protection Africa Summit together.
Chairperson, Executive Board, Africa Digital Rights Hub
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.
Senior Partner, Nsiah Akuetteh & Co
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.
Commercial Lawyer and Data Protection Officer
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.