Ms. Andah is a Senior Research Officer at Ghana's Food Research Institute, which studies processing and preservation of local foodstuffs in order to increase their efficiency. She has been both scientist and executive in the Institute, and has traveled extensively for academic study and professional consultation. She recently headed a technical committee for the government of Ghana, investigating the production and distribution of wheat flour in Ghana.

Ms. Andah holds a B.Sc. Special from the University of Ghana (1966) and a M. Phil. degree from the University of Leeds (1970), both in Food Science, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Food Technology from The International Agricultural Center in Wageningen, The Netherlands (1981).