Gina Blay

Gina Blay is a past student of OLA Girls School in Ho. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ghana[1] and a post-graduate diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Blay began her career in 1981 as the Public Relations Officer of Prices & Incomes Board. She later moved to the Achimota Brewery Company Limited as the Public Relations Manager, where she edited and published the brewery's magazine, the ABC News. She was the chief executive officer of Western Publication Limited, a print media house (publishers of the Daily Guide newspaper and other publications)[4] from 1992 until her appointment as Ambassador in June 2017. She aided in the growth of the business from a family run size to one of the largest media houses in Ghana.

She served on the boards of several companies and organizations in Ghana, including the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ghana Telecom, Ghana News Agency, the National Media Commission, and the World Association of Newspapers. She chaired the Board of the Mokola Marketing Company Limited and President of the Private Newspapers Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG) for ten years.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 and had a series of chemotherapy treatments.[1][5]

In June 2017, President Nana Akuffo-Addo named Blay as Ghana's ambassador to Germany. She was among eight other distinguished Ghanaians who were named to head various Ghanaian diplomatic missions in the world.[3][6]

• Media Communications Entrepreneur Award for the year 2016[7]

Blay is married to Freddie Blay, who is a Ghanaian lawyer, a politician and the National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party.[8] Together, they have three children. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming and reading.