Dr. Mary Setrana

Biography

Dr. Mary Boatemaa Setrana is a Senior lecturer at the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), University of Ghana (UG), Legon. She is affiliated to the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, the University of Johannesburg. Mary’s PhD was a sandwich between Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands and University of Ghana. She is a member of the Swiss Sub-Saharan Africa Migration (S-SAM).

She was appointed the first female lecturer at the CMS by the University of Ghana in 2014. Mary was a 2017 APN Individual Research Grant recipient and a post-doctoral fellow at University of South Florida (USF), USA, under the University of Ghana-Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsored project, Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa (BANGA).

She won the US Department of State Award to represent Ghana on the “National Security and Policymaking” programme for 2019. She was also a 2019 fellow at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA).

Mary participates (either as a PI or Co-I) in large research projects funded by EU, IOM, ILO and OECD, Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), Carnegie Corporation for New York (CCNY). She is developing a Ghana National Academic Diaspora Intervention Roadmap – a pilot document for other African Union member states. She participates (either as a lead or co-consultant) on national, regional and continental policies and capacity building projects including developing Ghana’s Diaspora Policy; Malawi National Labour Policy; Migration policies for Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe; capacity building plan on sustainable return and reintegration for Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa. She participates as a migration expert trainer on the AU’s migration governance training modules for its member states.

Mary is an Advisory Board member of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence on Migration and amp; Mobility.