William Kofi Dowokpor, is the Managing Consultant of Advocacy Communications; an integrated marketing communications company. He has more than 15 years of professional experience in the areas of journalism, advocacy communications (training and campaigns management), integrated marketing communications, public relations, strategic business development, international trade investment exhibitions and seminars.
William has worked extensively in planning, implementing,monitoring, evaluating and upgrading relationship-marketing programmes for private sector, educational, civil society and governance organizations.
Between 1993 to1996, William worked in mainstream media.From 1996 to the year 2003, he worked as Public Affairs Officer of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) where he integrated Public Affairs with Sales and Marketing, developing marketing and communications programmes, preparing editorial material, managing all aspects of GIMPA’s involvement in trade shows and symposia, and leading the development of GIMPA’s first website.
In the year 2002 William was elected to serve on the GIMPA Court of Governors (Council). In 2003 he resigned from GIMPA and moved on to the private sector, and became the Managing Consultant of Advocacy Communications.
Under the auspices of Advocacy Communications, William was appointed National Project Coordinator of Ghana Expo 2003 and 2004, two international trade investment exhibitions and seminars on Ghana held in London, UK and Atlanta, USA respectively; a project which created the platform for over 800 small and medium size Ghanaian businesses to showcase their products and services to the European and American markets.
William is the Founder and Publisher of the Business and Corporate Excellence Magazine (BCE) an organisational and executive development magazine.
Until he became actively involved in politics, he was the Communications and Public Affairs Consultant of the National African Peer Review Mechanism Governing Council (NAPRM-GC). William is a Journalism graduate from the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), a graduate of the University of Ghana Business School, Legon and the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, GIMPA. He is an Accredited Member of the Institute of Public Relations (IPR), Ghana
May 10th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
This is our MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon (God Willing January 2009). We are all going for CPP. No NDC or NPP can stop us. We will give the youth the chance to represent us this time. They are he future leaders and they must be given the chance now! I am happy for CPP. I wish William well and pray he makes the difference I hear him talk about every day.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I wish CPP the best of luck and they (William is going to win)are going to win the Parliamentary Seat for Ayawaso West Wuogon by God Willing Come January 2009. Amen!