Mirilove is a Ghanaian women and youth prosperity advocate, social entrepreneur, and Christian Minister, whose work cuts across many facets of the development spectrum. Her interest in gender equality, poverty alleviation, youth development, and mental health stems from her own childhood experiences, and these drive her commitment to advancing a fairer, healthier, and more inclusive society. Her work focuses on faith-based human capacity development and advancing prosperity for women and youth in Africa, leveraging business advisory services as both a catalyst for transformation and a sustainability tool for entrepreneurs.
Mirilove currently works as the Consortium Finance Lead for the Mastercard Foundation Financial Inclusion for Last Mile Actors Programme (FILMA), an initiative that seeks to empower rural poor women by improving their access to finance, markets, and capacity building, and create 80,000 dignified and sustainable jobs by 2028. She is also the co-founder of The Institute of Prosperity, a not-for-profit organisation that empowers women and youth through advocacy, research, capacity building, and humanitarian assistance and the founder of the YBGS Ministries, a Christian ministry committed to spiritual leadership, pastoral care and counselling, evangelism, and community service.
Previously, Mirilove worked as a Gender Focal Point and Finance & Administrative Specialist with the Ghana office of GIZ, a German development agency that provides services in the field of international development cooperation. Before that, Mirilove worked with a faith-based organisation, American Organization, an investment banking and management consultancy firm, and a development financing programme initiated by Danida, the Danish government’s development arm. During this time, she worked on issues including socio-economic justice, good governance, peace and reconciliation, inter-faith ecumenism, institutional capacity strengthening, local economic and rural development, human rights, and gender.
Mirilove is a UN young leader, YALI Alumni, and a Green Finance Hub Fellow. She is a member of the Project management Institute – US & Ghana, the Institute of Chartered Accountants-Ghana, and the Chartered Institute of Taxation-Ghana. Mirilove is also a certified Germany-Africa Start-up consultant. Mirilove regularly speaks and presents at conferences, seminars, schools and churches. She is also an artist and a member of the Roverman Productions performing arts group.
Mirilove holds an MSc in International Accounting and Finance from Buckinghamshire New University in the UK and a BSc in Business Administration from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.
Seeing this generation reap the benefits of the sacrifices of the previous one gives me enormous hope that our efforts, even if not seen today, will impact the next generation. Social change is happening all around us. Institutions and individuals are creating equal opportunities for women and young people to find themselves, their purpose, voice and to live their dreams.Mirilove Tay Acquah-Hagan