# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-asiedu
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:11:04.872Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-asiedu"
name: "Elizabeth Asiedu"
slug: "elizabeth-asiedu"
description: "Elizabeth Asiedu is a professor of economics at Howard University and a former professor at the University of Kansas. She has facilitated research that is centered around foreign aid, foreign directed investment (FDI), and gender. She is a founder of the Association for the Advancement of African Women (AAAWE), as well as the current president of the organization. Asiedu is an editor of the Journal of African Development."
tagline: "Ghanaian economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ASSA_2026_-_Elizabeth_Asiedu_01_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.18421052631579
  historical:           8.60306
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump