Charlotte Osei

Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei is a Ghanaian lawyer and former chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana from 2015 until she was dismissed in June 2018 on grounds of financial malfeasance. Her dismissal has been challenged in the Supreme Court of Ghana in two separate writs. She became the first female to serve in the office of the Electoral Commission of Ghana since the country's independence. She was previously the chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education. In May 2019, she was appointed by the United Nations to be on a team of international advisors, to assist in managing the 2019 presidential elections in Afghanistan.