RoseEmma Mamaa Entsua-Mensah (née Croffie; born 24 September 1959) is a Ghanaian fisheries scientist and freshwater aquatic ecologist. She was the chief research scientist and deputy director general of the country's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) from 2008 to 2019. She then became the director of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the CSIR College of Science and Technology. She holds a Bachelor of Science in zoology and a Master of Science in marine biology from the University of Cape Coast, as well as a PhD in fisheries science from the University of Ghana and a post-graduate certificate in aquatic resource management from the University of Hull. Her work has focused on documenting fish species in freshwater ecosystems and evaluating environmental impacts on their environments. She has also written about the roles of women in science education and research. She is a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Early life, education, and family RoseEmma Mamaa Croffie was born on 24 September 1959 in Tamale, Dominion of Ghana, to Emma Norma and Solomon Richmond Richard Croffie. Both her parents were educationists and the family included a brother and a sister. Croffie attended Wesley Girls' Senior High School in Cape Coast, completing her O-levels in 1977 and her A-levels in 1979. She was a recipient of The Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award (known as the Head of State Scheme in Ghana) in 1978. She earned a Bachelor of Science in zoology, a diploma of education, and then a Master of Science in marine biology from the University of Cape Coast. Croffie married Clement Entsua-Mensah, a librarian at the University of Cape Coast, with whom she had three children: Nanakua, Maame Adwoa, and Kobby. In 1994, Entusua-Mensah was awarded a Tonolli Memorial Fellowship from the International Society of Limnology to assist with her PhD studies. She completed her PhD in fisheries science at the University of Ghana, in 1998 with a thesis titled, Comparative Studies of the Dynamics and Management of Fish Populations in an Open and Closed Lagoon in Ghana. She later earned a certificate in aquatic resource management at the University of Hull, in Kingston upon Hull, England, and a post-graduate certificate from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration in business administration. In 2001, she was admitted as a member of the International Society of Limnology.
Career
Teaching (2001–2009) Entusua-Mensah started her career teaching in 2001 at the University of Education in Winneba. Simultaneously, she conducted research for the Water Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Between 2004 and 2005, she worked on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, an international, multi-disciplinary project designed to create a baseline for global ecosystems and a framework to evaluate how such systems could be better managed for the well-being of people and environments. After completing work on the project, she taught as a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville, before returning to Ghana in 2006 to teach at the University of Cape Coast until 2009.
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