Mrs. Georgette Barnes Sakyi-Addo is a Ghanaian mining executive with 30 years of experience in mining administration, business development, gender advocacy, and stakeholder management across Africa. She has extensive experience and understanding of Africa’s extractives sector and has leveraged her bilingual background as both an entrepreneur in West Africa and an effective advocate for women in mining on the continent.

Mrs. B. Sakyi Addo’s corporate work involves close collaboration with the Geology, Exploration, and Drilling units of large-scale mining companies, to whom she provides equipment and services through her company, Georgette Barnes Limited (GBL), founded in 2009. As a researcher, she is currently part of a project team conducting ESG assessments on strategic minerals operations across Africa, and she has co-authored more than five conference and journal articles promoting women’s diversity, inclusion, and participation in governance and enterprise within the mining sector.
Mrs. B. Sakyi-Addo served as President of the Association of African Women in Mining (AWIMA) and established Women in Mining Ghana (WIM GH), of which she currently serves as President. Her work spans global mining corporations, social development organisations, regulatory and academic institutions, and diplomatic missions.

Her contributions have been widely recognised: Forbes named her one of the most influential female leaders in Africa in 2023. In 2020, she received an honorary Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, along with recognition from the Ghana Chamber of Mines for her contribution to the growth and sustainable development of the mining sector in Ghana and West Africa, and for her advocacy for women’s participation in the industry. In 2018, she was named Female Entrepreneur of the Year by Invest in Africa (IIA), a non-profit championing African-owned SMEs across the continent, and in 2016 she was named one of the Global Inspirational Women in Mining by Women in Mining (UK).