Dr Rose Mensah-Kutin (born 22 November 1955) is a Ghanaian gender advocate and professional journalist. As of October 2016, she is the West Africa Regional director for ABANTU for Development.^[1][2]

She was born and raised in Brofoyedru, a town in the Adansi South district of the Ashanti region of Ghana, to a cocoa and coffee farmer.^[3]

Dr Mensah-Kutin was once a student of Brofoyedru Middle and United Methodist Middle Schools. She completed Accra Girls Secondary School and later went to Aggrey Memorial Zion Secondary School for her sixth-form education.^[3] She completed a bachelor's degree in English and History 1978 at University of Ghana and returned to do master's degree in Mass Communication from the same university in the following year.^[1][4] She holds a second master's degree from the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and a PhD in Gender and Energy Studies from the University of Birmingham, UK.^[4]

Earlier on in her career, she worked as an assistant editor for Daily Graphic in Ghana shortly after she co-founded Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana in 1999. She was one time Social Impact Assessment officer at Ghana's Ministry of Mines and Energy.^[5] She sits on the boards of The Netherlands-based International Gender and Energy Network (ENERGIA) and African Women Development Fund in Accra, Ghana.^[6] She is currently the West Africa Regional director for ABANTU for Development,^[2] an international non-governmental organisation that empowers women by giving leadership training in sustainable development.^[7]

She is married to Professor Kwame Karikari with four children.