Ing. Francis Kwesi Awotwe

Chief Manager

(Operations and Maintenance)

Ing. Francis Kwesi Awotwe who is currently the Chief Manager for Operations, is a Professional Mechanical Engineer. He joined Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in 1990 as Assistant Engineer.

From 2009-2014, he was the Regional Production Manager for Ashanti Region. He was appointed as the Ag. Chief Manager for the newly created Ashanti Production region, following the division of Ashanti Region into three regions. Prior to the above he was the Regional Chief Manager for Accra East Region. He served in the Central Region as Workshop Manager and Operations and Maintenance Engineer consecutively. He also served briefly as Ag. Regional Engineer within the same period.

Ing Awotwe has had practical training in pump design and maintenance with Weir Pumps in Scotland, Proficiency in Urban Water Supply in Germany at Dresden Technical University and Yokohama Water Works in Japan. He has also attended a number of local training and workshops relevant to the Water Supply Industry.

He holds a Commonwealth Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same university.