Deputy Convenor
Pauline Vande-Pallen is a Programme Officer on Gender and Economic Policy and Extractives in TWN-Africa. She has over two decades of experience of working on Ghanaian, African, and global gender and economic policy issues. Pauline is also the focal point for the Ghana National Coalition on Mining (NCOM), a grouping of community groups in mining areas and CSOs defending human and environmental rights and working for the optimum utilization of Ghana’s mineral resources. TWN-Africa serves as the secretariat of the NCOM. Pauline was educated at the University of Ghana (BA in French and Psychology) and the Institute for Social Studies (ISS), the Hague, Netherlands (MA in Development Studies).