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Peggy Oti-Boateng is a Ghanaian bio-chemist. She is the current executive director of African Academy of Sciences. She is the immediate former head of UNESCO Science Policy and Capacity Building Department. She was also a former head of the Sciences Sector for the Southern African Development Community,director of the Research Centre at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and former chair of the BioInnovate Africa Programme Advisory Committee (PAC). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Oti-Boateng received her MSc in biochemistry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi (Ghana) and her PhD in Food Science and Technology from Adelaide University in Australia. [2] [6]
Oti-Boateng began her career in as researcher at the Technology Consultancy Centre at the College of Engineering at KNUST in 1985. [6] In 1989,she became a Consultant and Trainer at the South Australian Department for Training and Employment in Adelaide,Australia. Between 2005 and 2010,she was a Director of the Research Centre at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and in 2011,she joined the UNESCO as a Senior Programme Specialist in Kenya. [2] [3] In 2015,she was transferred to regional office in Harare,Zimbabwe where she became the director of the Division of Science Policy and Capacity Building in the Natural Sciences Sector. In 2022,she became the executive director of African Academy of Sciences. [1] [5] [7]
Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah was a Ghanaian politician,scholar,lawyer,and one of the founding fathers of Ghana. He played a significant role in pre- and post-colonial Ghana,which was formerly the Gold Coast,and is credited with giving Ghana its name. During his political career,Danquah was one of the primary opposition leaders to Ghanaian president and independence leader Kwame Nkrumah. Danquah was described as the "doyen of Gold Coast politics" by the Watson Commission of Inquiry into the 1948 Accra riots.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is a public University of Ghana that focuses on science and technology. The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is the public university established in the country,as well as the largest university in the Kumasi Metropolis and in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. KNUST has its roots in the plans of Agyeman Prempeh I,a ruler of the Ashanti Kingdom,to establish a university in Kumasi as part of his drive towards modernization of his Ashanti kingdom. This plan never came to fruition due to the clash between British empire expansion and the desire for King Prempeh I to preserve his Ashanti kingdom's independence.
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