Biographical Sketch: Nancy KETEKU

Institution: U.S. Embassy

Country: Ghana

Nancy Keteku serves as the Regional Educational Advising Coordinator for Africa, responsible to the Institute of International Education and the U.S. Department of State on issues of expanding U.S. higher education opportunities for African students. As an American who has lived in Ghana for over thirty years, she has been uniquely positioned to study the development of African universities and their role in the wider global arena. During the past twelve years as REAC, she has worked with the higher education sector in 40 African countries, gaining a perspective on development of both public and private institutions of higher education. She has been directly and indirectly responsible for assisting African students to obtain over $10 million a year in funding for study in the United States and is a leading authority on financing higher education in the United States for international students. She also studies accreditation systems, degree mills, push-pull factors, educational exchange models, credential evaluation, and admissions procedures.