Esi Awuah is a Ghanaian academic and former vice chancellor of the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Sunyani, Ghana.
Her father is from Akim Oda, Ghana and served as the Deputy Chief Conservator of Forestry in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions.
In 1998, she was awarded a fellowship from the Dutch government to pursue a PhD in waste-water treatment at the Institute of Infrastructural, Hydraulic, and Environmental Engineering (now UNESCO-IHE) at Delft in the Netherlands.
Awuah has over 100 publications to her credit in refereed journals, conference papers, environmental reports, and book chapters.
In 2011, she received the silver award for best research in the area of environment, water, and sanitation, during the first National Science Congress in Ghana.
Awuah attends the Mount Zion Methodist Church in Kotei, Kumasi, where she is an organist and choir member.