Joe Baidoo-Ansah is a journalist, communications specialist, human rights advocate and activist, and a politician who served as a member of parliament in Ghana from 2001 to 2017.
He was a Communications Consultant and later became the executive director of the Ghana Committee on Human and Peoples Rights, an organization formed by him and other Convenors on 28 October 1991 in Accra.
He was an organizer for the Movement for Freedom and Justice (MFJ) and worked together with Prof. Adu Buahen, Johnny Hanson, Akoto Ampaw, Kwasi Pratt, John Ndebugre, Sekou Nkrumah and others to end the Rawlings dictatorship.
He served as the Vice Chairman of the board of directors for The International Center for Not- for Profit Laws (ICNL) Washington DC (1999 to 2004) and later as an Advisory Council Member.
He also has a master's of Arts in Conflict, Peace and Security from the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Center.
[1][2][3] Baidoe-Ansah is a journalist by profession, a Human rights activist and specialist, and a communication, conflict and peace expert.
Prior to entering politics, he was the executive director of the Ghana Committee on Human and Peoples Rights (GCHPR).