Ama Mawusi Mawuenyefia

Ama Mawusi Mawuenyefia serves as a board member of the Minerals Income Investment Fund, a Ghanaian state institution established to manage and invest the equity interests and dividends that Ghana receives from its mineral resource operations. The fund represents an important mechanism through which Ghana channels resource revenues into long-term investment vehicles designed to generate returns for current and future generations of Ghanaians, rather than simply absorbing those revenues into the general budget cycle.

The Minerals Income Investment Fund was established under the Minerals Income Investment Fund Act of 2018 and represents a significant evolution in how Ghana manages its extractive resource wealth. The fund is authorised to hold equity stakes in mining companies, manage mineral royalties, and invest those revenues across a range of asset classes, domestically and internationally. Board directors of the fund exercise oversight over investment decisions that are consequential not only for their financial returns but for the long-term economic development of Ghana.

Mawuenyefia's board role at the MIIF places her at the intersection of resource governance, sovereign wealth management, and investment strategy, areas of growing importance as Ghana works to maximise the developmental impact of its considerable mineral wealth. The fund's governance framework requires directors who can engage with sophisticated investment mandates, risk management frameworks, and the complex political economy of resource revenue management in a developing country context.

Her inclusion in the 2026 Avance Media Top 100 Women Board Directors ranking, which examined board compositions across 100 of Ghana's leading public and private institutions, reflects her standing within the country's corporate and public sector governance community. The ranking found that women now hold 25.9 percent of board seats across the organisations surveyed, a figure that places Ghana's progress in context and signals the ongoing importance of recognising and amplifying women's governance contributions.

Her work at the Minerals Income Investment Fund connects her to one of the most consequential conversations about Ghana's economic future: how the country manages the finite wealth locked in its mineral resources to build enduring prosperity.