Peter Quartey is a Ghanaian economist. He is a professor of development economics and has been director of the Institute of Statistical,Social and Economic Research of the University of Ghana since August 2019.[1][2]
Peter Quartey was born in Accra. He attended Wesley Grammar School and Accra Academy.[3] Quartey received a B.A. and MPhil in economics from the University of Ghana in 1994 and 1996,respectively. Under an ODA Scholarship in 1996,Quartey moved to the University of Warwick to obtain a master's degree in Quantitative Development Economics. From 1998 to 2002,Quartey was enrolled at the University of Manchester for his doctorate degree in Development Economics.[4]
Career
In 2003,he returned to Ghana and joined the Institute of Economic Affairs and later the Institute of Statistical,Social and Economic Research (ISSER),University of Ghana in 2004 as a research fellow. He was promoted to senior research fellow in 2008,to associate professor in May 2011 and professor in January 2016. Peter Quartey is currently a professor at the Institute of Statistical,Social and Economic Research (ISSER),the head of the Department of Economics and director of the Economic Policy Management Programme of the University of Ghana.[5][6]
Research
His research interests include private sector development,development finance,monetary economics,migration and remittances,and poverty analysis.[7]
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