Matilda Baffour Awuah

Matilda Baffour Awuah is a Ghanaian female security expert and a former Director General of the Ghana Prisons Service.

Education and working life Matilda Awuah attended Aburi Girls Secondary School in the Eastern Region of Ghana. She proceeded to the University of Ghana and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Modern History. She holds a master's degree in Public Administration from the School of Administration of the University of Ghana and a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Public Relations from the School of Communication Studies.

After years of service she was made the head of public relations at the Prisons Headquarters and then the Chief Welfare Officer. She headed several female prisons in Ghana including the Nsawam Female Prison and James Fort Female Prison. Part of her international assignment was with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.