The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra,Ghana. It is the oldest public university in Ghana.
Joe Oloka-Onyango is a Ugandan lawyer and academic. He is a Professor of Law at Makerere University School of Law where he has also formerly been Dean and Director of the Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC). He is married to Prof Sylvia Tamale,also a lawyer,academic and activist. They have two sons;Kwame Sobukwe Ayepa and Samora Okech Sanga.
Kwesi Botchwey was a Ghanaian government official and Professor of Practice in Development Economics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.
Akua Kuenyehia is a Ghanaian academic and lawyer who served as judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2003 to 2015. She also served as First Vice-president of the Court. She was one of the three female African judges at the ICC.
Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang is a Ghanaian academic and politician who served as Minister for Education from February 2013 to January 2017. She is a full professor of literature. She served as the first female Vice-Chancellor of a state university in Ghana when she took over as Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Coast. She currently serves as the Chancellor of the Women's University in Africa.
Ernest Aryeetey,is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Statistical,Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. Until 31st July 2024,he was the secretary-general of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA). He was also previously vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana (2010-2016). Prior to his appointment as vice-chancellor,he was a senior fellow and director of the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution,Washington,D.C. He had also been director of ISSER at the University of Ghana for the period February 2003 to January 2010.
The University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS),a public university located at Ho in the Volta Region of Ghana. UHAS is one of the youngest public universities in Ghana. Its operation started in September 2012,when the first batch of 154 students were admitted.
Esi Sutherland-Addy is a Ghanaian academic,writer,educationalist,and human rights activist. She is a professor at the Institute of African Studies,where she has been senior research fellow,head of the Language,Literature,and Drama Section,and associate director of the African Humanities Institute Program at the University of Ghana. She is credited with more than 60 publications in the areas of education policy,higher education,female education,literature,theatre and culture,and serves on numerous committees,boards and commissions locally and internationally. She is the first daughter of writer and cultural activist Efua Sutherland.
Ebenezer Oduro Owusu is a Ghanaian entomologist and university administrator who served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana from 1 August 2016 to 31 July 2021. In this role,he was the principal academic and administrative officer of the university. Owusu is a professor of entomology at the Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Science and prior to his appointment as vice-chancellor,he was the provost of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences at the University of Ghana. He is the current President of the Presbyterian University College.
Elsie Akosua Biraa Effah Kaufmann is a Ghanaian academic,academic administrator,biomedical engineer,and current host of the National Science and Maths Quiz. In December 2020,Elsie Kaufmann was appointed an associate professor at the University of Ghana,and was appointed the Dean of the School of Engineering Sciences on 1 August 2022.
Anselmus Kodzo Paaku Kludze was a Ghanaian lawyer,author and academic who served as a judge for the Supreme Court of Ghana and was also a professor. He was an Emeritus Professor of law at Rutgers University,Camden,New Jersey,United States,a chairman of the Law Reform Commission of Ghana,a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,London.
Dzodzi Tsikata is a Ghanaian feminist,academic,professor of Development Sociology and Director of Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana.
Frederick Torgbor Sai, was a Ghanaian academic and family health physician who co-founded the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana in 1967. A gender and reproductive health advocate,he was known for his campaigns and education drawing attention to the food and nutrition problems of Africa,particularly of women and children. He served as the Chief Physician for Nutrition and the Director of Medical Services at the Ghana Health Service and Professor of Community Health at the University of Ghana,Legon. He was also a nutrition advisor to the Food and Agriculture Organisation,Africa Region as well as the coordinator for the World Hunger Programme of the United Nations University and a Senior Population Advisor to the World Bank. He was the President and Honorary Secretary of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. In professional circles,he was known as the “Godfather or Father of Family Planning”and sometimes as the “Grandfather of Maternal Health”.
Nii Ashie Kotey is a Ghanaian judge and academic. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana from 3 October 2018 until his retirement on 28 July 2023.
Josephine Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a Ghanaian academic who is a professor of Gender Studies and African Studies at the University of Ghana. She is feminist activist-scholar,and a strong advocate for social justice.
Takyiwaa Manuh is Ghanaian academic and author. She is an Emerita Professor of the University of Ghana,and until her retirement in May 2017,she served as the Director of the Social Development Policy Division,of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA),located in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia. She was also the Director of the Institute of African Studies,University of Ghana from 2002 to 2009. She is a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Peter Quartey is a Ghanaian economist and the Director of the Institute of Statistical,Social and Economic Research of the University of Ghana,since 2019. He is a professor of development economics at the University of Ghana.
Professor Audrey Sitsofe Gadzekpo is a Ghanaian media practitioner and female dean of the School of Information and Communications Studies at the University of Ghana. She was formerly a Communications Consultant and Lecturer who represented women's groups. She is also a member of the Webster Ghana's advisory board.
Bill Buenar Puplampu is a Ghanaian academic,occupational psychologist and the current Vice Chancellor of the Central University.
Richmond Aryeetey is a Ghanaian academic. He is a professor of Public Health Nutrition at the University of Ghana and Dean of the School of Public Health,within the Department of Population,Family,and Reproductive Health,where he also serves as the head of department.
