Officers of the Institute

Prof. Samuel K. Bonsu

Rector

Prof. Martin Morgan Tuuli

Deputy Rector

Mrs. Victoria Kunbour

Secretary / Registrar

Prof. Samuel Famiyeh

Dean, Business School

Patrick Tandoh-Offin, PhD

Dean/Senior Lecturer

Augustina Akonnor, PhD

Dean of Students /Senior Lecturer

Prof. Wisdom Akpalu

Dean, School of Research and Graduate Studies (SRGS)

Kwaku Agyeman-Budu, PhD

Dean/Senior Lecturer

Samuel Agyei-Ampomah, PhD

Dean, School of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences(SLASS)

Director, Finance

Mrs. Gloria Appoh

Director, Academic Affairs

Mr. Adolph Agbeh

Librarian

Mrs. Philippa Ampofo

Director, Hospitality Services

Mr. Solomon Asante Dartey

Principal Officer, Information Management Services

Prof. Wisdom Akpalu

Dean, School of Research and Graduate Studies (SRGS)

Prof. Wisdom Akpalu attended Anloga Secondary School for his Ordinary Level Certificate and Presbyterian Boys Secondary Schools, Legon, for his Advanced Level Certificate. He then proceeded to the University of Cape Coast (UCC) where he graduated with a BA (Hons) Economics degree and a Diploma in Education. He was retained as a Teaching Assistant and awarded a scholarship by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) for an MSc Economics degree at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. The program was taught by the Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at Oxford University. Upon graduation, he was hired by UCC as a lecturer. After teaching for 4 years, he becomes one of 5 candidates selected globally in 2001 to benefit from the prestigious Swedish Sida scholarship for a PhD degree in Economics at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He successfully completed the program and obtained a PhD as well as Licentiate of Philosophy degrees in Economics. The Center for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) in Pretoria, South Africa hired him as a research fellow soon after he graduated. He left for the USA a year later and was hired by the State University of New York (SUNY) – Farmingdale, New York, where he was promoted to Associate Professor of Economics in 2012 and was the Chair of the Department of Economics. While at SUNY, Prof. Akpalu was offered an opportunity by United Nations University (UNU) to return to Ghana and manage a PhD program in Development Economics at the University of Ghana. The program currently has over 30 students and has graduated 3 of them.

Prof. Akpalu is a gifted teacher and internationally recognized scholar in the field of environment and natural resource economics, and social economics. He has taught, supervised, and examined several undergraduate and graduate students globally. Since 2013, he was invited by the AERC and CEEPA as a resource person to mentor researchers on the continent. Regarding research, Prof. Akpalu has published several articles in reputable journals and has presented his works at major international conferences. The North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE) invited him as a keynote speaker at the 2019 forum in Canada. In 2015, the Academy of Economics and Finance (AEF) recognized his extraordinary achievements in research and awarded him the Research Fellow of the year. Moreover, Prof. Akpalu has consulted for many international organizations including the World Bank, the African Development Bank, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), International Labor Organization (ILO), The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), etc. He is the current president of the African Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AFAERE).

Mr. Solomon Asante Dartey

Principal Officer, Information Management Services

Mr Solomon Asante Dartey is an IT specialist and consultant with over 20 years of experience in IT related engagements. Solomon holds a Master degree in Software Systems Technology from the University of Sheffield, UK and has been certified by the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA), USA in the management of Business Incubation programmes and Technology parks. He is also certified in various Microsoft and other enterprise solutions including SunSystems, Vision, Citrix and Oracle.

Solomon was the Deputy Chief Information Technology Officer (IT Services) of the University of Ghana between 2014 and 2018. He was in charge of all software systems and services of the university, ensuring excellence in the delivery of IT services and solutions across all campuses of the university.

Prior to taking this appointment, Solomon worked for nine (9) years with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as programme coordinator for their ICT Entrepreneurship initiative under the government’s ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD) Programme. He was Director for the Ghana Multimedia Incubator Center (GMIC), a technology business incubator of the Ministry of Communications, Ghana in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Here he led the setup of the first government ICT business incubator that focuses on the identification of innovative ICT ideas and their commercialization into working solutions through various business development and advisory services. Solomon was closely involved in the conception and establishment of the first government ICT park (The Accra Digital Centre) a destination for young ICT talents and entrepreneurs.

Previously, Solomon also worked with KPMG (an International advisory firm) for almost nine (9) years as a senior consultant and manager. He was involved in several key IT related consultancy and project management engagements for local and international clients in Ghana and in many other countries. He was particularly in charge of consultancy services in Information Risk Management, re-engineering of information processes, computer systems audit, evaluation and selection of software packages and platforms, IT strategy development, training of system support/user staff and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).

Solomon loves teaching and between 2004 and 2007 was a part-time lecturer on the MBA programme in Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University College of Wisconsin, Accra Campus, Ghana. His hobbies include swimming and sightseeing.