FOUNDER & LEAD COUNSEL
CHARLOTTE OSEI
Charlotte’s education and public sector professional activities have been focused on election administration, electoral reforms, voter education, gender, and human rights advocacy. In the private sector, her vast legal expertise covers the areas of financial management, banking, labour and human resource management, public-private sector partnerships, negotiation of commercial contracts and mineral concessions.
She was previously in charge of the day to day management and strategic oversight of Ghana’s Electoral Commission for three years. During her tenure, she successfully supervised the conduct of four parliamentary by-elections, two national elections- local government elections (2015) and presidential and parliamentary elections (2016). At the Electoral Commission, she managed an annual budget of USD300million, permanent staff of 1400 across in over 200 offices nationwide and temporary staff of 140,000 during election periods. She also had direct oversight and responsibility for communications and public relations, voter education, procurement and information technology.
She also led a branch and root reform of the Commission resulting in the launch and partial implementation of a five-year strategic plan and successfully implemented major electoral reforms and over fifty new initiatives over a three-year period. The 2016 elections were acclaimed by Domestic and International Observers as one of the best in Africa leading to the following awards and recognitions: Woman of Courage Award (2017) by the US government, Glitz Africa Woman of the Year Award 2018 (Governance) and Chatham House Prize 2017 finalist.
Charlotte is the founder and Lead Counsel for the firm.