Mavis Owureku Asare

Mavis  is a food Scientist  and Food Safety consultant who strives to empower food processors with technical support services that will help build stronger food brands that can compete globally. She is a Senior Research Scientist at the Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission. She has fifteen (15) years of experience in Food Research and Development. She is  highly skilled  with interdisciplinary expertise that cut across food Science, Nutrition, Food Engineering and Agribusiness. She is certified in FSPCA Preventive Controls Course for Human Food, USDA. She has expertise in drafting of patents for scientific inventions in Ghana and has in-depth knowledge on local and international food standards such as the Codex Alimentarius, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Ghana Food Standards. She holds a PhD in Food Science and Technology and a fellow of Norman E. Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program (LEAP) of the US government’s Feed the Future Borlaug 21st Century Leadership Initiative. She is also a fellow of the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD). She is also a mentor and coach for The Kufuor Young Entrepreneurs Network (K-YEN) one of the projects of the John A. Kufuor Foundation.  She is a 2020 Aspen New voices fellow and a fellow of the Organisation of Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)