Prof. Goski Alabi
Prof. Goski Alabi is one of Africa’s leading Full Professor in total quality management, and
a consultant in strategic leadership and corporate governance, with a focus on higher education
leadership and governance. She is an academic, a consultant, author and an accomplished
entrepreneur with more than 20 years of professional experience in academia, consultancy,
regulation, advocacy and business. Prof. Mrs. Alabi serves on several public, corporate and
international boards and committees. People have described her as the start-up queen and
educational revolutionist.
She is currently President and Founder of Laweh University College, the first accredited open
university in Ghana and second in West Africa. She is also President of the African Council
for Distance Education (ACDE) April, 2021, as well as Chair of the African Network for
Internationalization of Education – ANIE (September 2016 to date). She is also Chair of the
Continental Education Strategy for Africa Sub-Cluster on ODeL (2019 -till date) , Co-Chair
of the International Scientific Advisory Board of The World Bank “African Centre of
Excellence for Innovative and Transformative STEM Education, Lagos State University (July
7th, 2020) LASU-ACEITSE,
In June 2019, Prof. Goski was “The Lecturer”, Keynote speaker at the prestigious Oxford
University’s Sir David Watson Memorial Lecture at the Human Welfare Conference
(https://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/events-series/human-welfare-conference/humanwelfare-conference-2019/2019-david-watson-memorial-lecturer-professor-mrs-goski-alabi/).
As an Author, Prof. Goski is author of the seminal book “Managing for Excellence in the
21st Century, the Total Quality Approach” which appeared in the New York Times in August
2017. https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Excellence-Twenty-First-CenturyApproach/dp/1524643246, and two other recent books, “Leadership Makes the Difference
but Leaders Matter https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Makes-Difference-LeadersMatter/dp/1665531797 and the Four Capitals for Success: A Personal Leadership Guide
https://www.amazon.in/Four-Capitals-Success-Personal-Leadership/dp/1665546263 among
others
As a consultant She also consulted for the Ministry of Trade and Industry on the National
Quality Awareness Project, strategic planning to the Bank of Ghana, the Public Services
Commission, the Architects Registration Council. of Ghana and the Ethiopian Institute of
Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC). She also offered several
other consultancy services to the Association of African Universities, (AAU), the African
Union Commission, as well as the European Union Commission among a few to mention. Prof.
Goski has also led and participated in several Work Bank, DFID and EU Commission Projects
successfully. She also audited several national and international public and private universities
for the then National Accreditation Board and the African Union Commission’s Quality Rating
Mechanism.
As An Academic, Prof, Goski is the Founding Dean of the school of Graduate Studies and
Centre for International Education of the University of Professional Studies (2009-2016) and
(2017-2018) respectively. As Dean of the Graduate school of the UPSA, Prof. Goski Alabi
grew the school from zero to about 1000 students in six years and gain the acclaimed ACBSP
accreditation of America, the first to receive the ACBSP accreditation in Africa, and earned
the ACBSP Ambassador for Africa in 2016.
Prof Goski has received several awards. She was awarded Africa’s Most Respected CEO,
Education Category in Dubia in July, 2021 by the Business Executive Magazine for
Establishing and Managing Laweh Open University College, the first Accredited Open
University in Ghana and second in West Africa
