Derek B Laryea is the Head of Research & Communications at the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications; a private initiative and industry association of mobile operators and infrastructure companies.
Prior to his current role, Derek was Reputation Research, Planning & Budgeting Administrator at Scancom (MTN) Ghana, where he was actively involved in the coordination, implementation and evaluation of MTN’s community-based projects and social marketing campaigns. He also leads the Taxation Working Group for the A4AI in Ghana
Derek has close to 12years’ experience spanning converged telecommunications and digital financial services working on numerous projects within Ghana and with global bodies such as the GSMA, Facebook, UNICEF, A4AI, UNDP, FTI Consulting etc. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Valley View University in Ghana, an MBA in Financial Management from Coventry UK, and an MA in Public Relations from the Institute of Journalism in Ghana.
He is a certified digital finance practitioner and an alumnus of the Digital Frontiers Institute.