Juliet Bawuah

On 15 May 2019 Juliet Bawuah brought women from sport, media and business to Accra for the first Africa Women's Sports Summit, which she founded. Two years later the GSport Awards in South Africa named her African Woman in Sport.

Education

She attended Mawuko Girls' Senior High School in Ho, earned a degree in journalism and public relations from the Ghana Institute of Journalism and a communication studies diploma from the African University College of Communications, and in 2018 finished a master's at Cardiff University in Wales, focused on PR and communication across borders. She also trained at the Radio Netherlands Training Centre and took part in the US International Visitor Leadership Program.

Sports journalism

Before television she wrote and reported for Goal.com, Citi FM, the Globe newspaper and CAF's website, then worked at Metro TV and ETV. She joined TV3 in July 2013 and became one of the best-known sports presenters in Ghana. For Africanews she hosted Football Planet and covered the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, and she has contributed to the BBC, TRT, Premier League TV and LaLiga TV. She has sat on the voting panels for CAF's and the BBC's African Footballer of the Year awards.

Advocacy

UNAIDS chose her as a face of its Protect the Goal campaign, which uses football to spread HIV awareness, and served on the organising committee for the Women's Premier League Super Cup.