Mr. Kyeretwie Osei is the Head of Programmes at the ECOSOCC Secretariat with overall responsibility for establishing ECOSOCC’s program direction and managing the organ’s technical resources to deliver on its mandate as a consultative institution of the African Union. He is also primarily responsible for partnership development and project management at the level of the Secretariat. Before joining ECOSOCC he served four years as a Policy Officer at the African Union Commission’s Directorate of Citizens and Diaspora Organizations (CIDO); with responsibility for the Americas and the Caribbean. His career background is in policy development in the area of civil society and diaspora engagement as well as project management in the international development sector. He has also advised governmental and other development partners in the areas of diaspora and civil society policy and program development.