Deborah Opandoh is a KNUST trained agricultural engineer with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering and a master’s in food and post-harvest engineering. She is currently the Executive Director of QueenTech Initiative, a nonprofit in Ghana which designs and builds affordable food processing machines for the underprivileged on micro loan basis. Her work on the design and production of affordable, food safe, and energy efficient food processing equipment has a reach in all regions of Ghana.
She has worked with the Food Processing team of the Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship (ADE) program of the Olin College of Engineering since May 2013 on the design of mini cassava graters and presses and specifically worked on the standardization of the grating surface of the mini cassava grater as part of her Master’s thesis. Ms. Opandoh also has rich experience in training facilitation and improved design methods from her work with the International Development Innovation Network (IDIN) Ghana as a project manager at the Technology consultancy centre (TCC) of KNUST.