Dr. Regina N. Tawah

Dr. Regina N. Tawah is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bowie State University’s College of Business, Bowie Maryland. She teaches various Economics courses to Business and other students, enabling them get the foundation and tools necessary for good decision making. Dr. Tawah has also worked to expose her students to the practice of International Business by not only facilitating networks of students and American businesses with transactions abroad but also taking them on a short term study abroad program to Ethiopia where they spent time with Business students at Addis Ababa University and Ethiopian businesses as well as visited some historic cultural sites.  These activities were elements under the College of Business International Business Initiative funded through grant from the US Department of Education. Dr. Tawah co-authored this grant and travelled to Ethiopia with two colleagues with two groups of students totalling 18 students in two consecutive years (January 2011 and January 2012).  

Dr. Tawah, prior to Bowie State University, taught at the Prince George’s Community College, Largo-Maryland, Strayer University, Washington D.C., the University of Yaounde, and the University of Yaounde II, Soa. Her research has to a large extent been on Cameroon covering topics like Small and Medium-scale Businesses, Poverty, Investment and Economic Growth, as well as Gender and Economic Reform. 

Dr. Tawah has a PhD from the Free University, Berlin-Germany, M.S from the University of Ibadan and B.S from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. 

Dr. Tawah serves on the City of Bowie Economic Development Committee and on the Board of a number of community organizations.