Ethel Cofie

Ethel Delali Cofie is a Ghanaian technology entrepreneur and the founder and chief executive of EDEL Technology Consulting, an IT consulting firm working in West Africa and Europe. She also founded Women in Tech Africa, which has members in more than 30 countries.

Education

She earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Valley View University in Ghana and an MSc in distributed systems from the University of Brighton in England, where she studied from 2006 to 2009. She later completed an executive programme in leadership, business and entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management.

Career

She started out in the UK as a business and systems analyst at RDF Solutions. She went on to work on technology projects in the UK, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, among them a mobile health project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a Ford Foundation election-monitoring project in Nigeria. She was then Head of Commercial Solutions at Vodafone Ghana before setting up EDEL Technology Consulting.

Women in Tech Africa

Women in Tech Africa brings together women working in technology across the continent and the diaspora. Its annual Women in Tech Week holds events in several countries for women and girls interested in tech careers.

Boards and recognition

She sits on the board of Old Mutual Ghana and has served on the boards of the ticketing platform Egotickets, AMOSS Holdings and Social Media Week Lagos. She is a Mandela Washington Fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). IT News Africa listed her among Africa's leading women in tech in 2015, CEO Global named her Africa's Most Influential Woman in Business and Government for ICT in 2016, and she won a Glitz Africa Ghana Women award in 2020. In 2026 Avance Media ranked her among the Top 100 Women Board Directors in Ghana.