Prof. Mary Boatemaa Setrana is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana. Since her appointment, she has been teaching bothgraduate and post-graduate courses as well as supervising MA (Regular thesis), MA (Sandwich), MPhil, and PhD dissertations. Prof. Mary Setrana applies her multidisciplinary background of sociology, political science, linguistics and migration in her teaching and research that uniquely distinguishes her output. Prof. Setrana participates (either as a PI or Co-I) in large research projects funded by EU, IOM, ILO and OECD, Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), Carnegie Corporation for New York (CCNY). She is currently the co-director for the fronting of belonging project funded by SSHRC and a member of the consortium working on the following projects: Migration Decisions and the COVID-19 Pandemic project funded by Swiss Government; GCRF South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub, funded by UKRI; Climate Change, Migration and Social Transformation project funded by EU; Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace Project, funded by UKRI; and Crises as Opportunities project, funded by EU. Prof. Mary Setrana has contributed to migration policy development in Ghana and other African countries. Specifically, she was part of the team that drafted the Diaspora Engagement policy in Ghana. She is te lead consultant for the finalization of the national migration policy for Botswana. She was also one of the consultants for the development of national migration policies in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. She won the US Department of State Award to represent Ghana on the “National Security and Policymaking” programme in 2019. She has also been playing the role of an expert trainer on the AU’s migration governance training programme for its member states. Prof. Setrana has developed a Ghana National Academic Diaspora Intervention Roadmap – a pilot document for some African Union member states. Prof. Setrana is a member of a number of migration governance advisory groups and networks. For instance, she is currently a technical advisor to the African Union Commission (AUC) on migration governance. She is also an Advisory Board member of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence on Migration & Mobility and the Centre for Forced Migration in Boston University, USA. Additionally, Prof. Setrana is a member of the following migration research networks: Swiss Sub-Saharan Africa Migration (S-SAM), Migration Governance Lab, University of Witwatersrand, and Young Policy Network on Migration (YPNM). Prof. Setrana has published the findings of past and current research projects in highly reputable journals. Prof. Setrana is also an associate editor for the journal of African Diaspora and the African Studies Review. She is currently the Program Affairs and Innovative Officer for International Association of Forced Migration Conference Committee (IASFM). Her research interest include, Forced Displacement, Gender and Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding, Migration and Social Change, South-South Migration and Development, Migration Governance and Integration.
