Kwesi Owusu

Dr Owusu is a highly experienced expert in communications and social marketing with over 25years experience working in the creative industries. Dr Owusu was a Senior Director of Jubilee 2000, one of the most successful global marketing campaigns of all time.

 

He led the campaign for debt relief in twenty African countries in the late 1990's. Dr Owusu is one of Ghana's leading film directors and writers. He is the author of four books on culture published by Routledge, London and New York.

 

Dr Owusu is an associate of the African Studies Centre at the University of Cambridge and heads Creative Storm. He is Director of Environmental Film Festival ofAccra and Executive Member of the Ghana Creative Industries Foundation.

 

He was nominated personality of the century by the Millennium Excellence Awards (2006) and received the Arts, Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana's award for cultural ambassador in 2008.



 

Dr Owusu's film credits include AMA (35mm, Channel 4 Television Artificial Eye, 1991), OUAGA. African Cinema Now (16mm, Channel 4 TV, 1986, the acclaimed documentary on the Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou and Water is Life (Creative Storm / Oxfam GB, 2004).

 

Since 2003, he has directed over 40 documentaries and several commercials for Creative Storm. He was the festival director for the major African Film Festival at the Edinburgh Film House in 1995. Dr Owusu was educated at Adisadel Collage, Ghana and the London School of Economics