Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

Author and doctoral student, Harvard Kennedy School

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is an award-winning Ghanaian-American researcher and writer. She is a postgraduate student at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics. She is the youngest recipient for a CEDAW Women's Rights Award by the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Her first book received widespread coverage from outlets like NPR, ESSENCE, TELEMUNDO, and The New York Times.

Featured work

A woman boards an underground train at Bank station as the deadline nears for companies to report their gender pay gap on April 4, 2018 in London, England.

Podcast

Double tax – why women pay it and what to do about it

Fixing gender inequality could reap big gains for the entire economy

Rebecca Christie, Marie-Sophie Lappe and Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

05 November 2025

employment inequality