Amma Boakye-Danquah is a strategic advisor and innovation leader with over 16 years of experience shaping education systems, youth leadership, and adaptive learning across West Africa. She has led multimillion-dollar initiatives at USAID , including the $22M Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Regional Leadership Center and the development of the West Africa Learning and Knowledge (WALK) Agenda, helping institutions turn data into action and policy into practice. Known for building unlikely partnerships across government, philanthropy, media, and the private sector, Amma’s work sits at the intersection of systems change, evidence-based strategy, and inclusive leadership. Her career spans collaborations with organizations such as the Mastercard Foundation, Microsoft, and regional bodies including ECOWAS. She is a graduate of Cornell, Columbia and the London School of Economics and is driven by a belief that learning, storytelling, and courageous collaboration are essential to building institutions that actually respond to the realities people face.