The Governing Council of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) has, at its 58th Regular Meeting approved the appointment, renewal of term and promotion of some senior members of the institute, which saw some three senior lecturers becoming associate professors.
While, Gloria Appoh, Director of Academic Affairs and Adolph Agbeh of the Institute’s Librarian, got their appointments renewed, Dr Justice Srem-Sai and Ferdinand Adadzi, have been promoted to the status of Senior Lecturers from Lecturers at the GIMPA’s Faculty of Law.
Dr Lord Cephas Mawuko-Yevugah and Dr Philip Adom of the School of Public Service and Governance (SPSG) were promoted from Senior Lecturers to Associate Professors.
Also made Associate Professor, was Dr Joseph Adjei of the School of Technology (SOT).
Ahead of these appointment and promotions, the GIMPA Governing Council at the 22nd Congregation of the Institute on Friday, July 29 and Saturday July 30, 2022 on its Greenhill Campus -Accra, also announced Victoria M. Puoyeng Kunbuor to take over from Julius Atikpui, as the Registrar of the Institute.
She is the first female to occupy that position and her tenure takes effect from Thursday, September 01, 2022.
Prior to her appointment as the Secretary of the Institute, she was the Director of Human Resource Management from December 2017, until this elevation.
While, little is available to The Herald on Professor Philip Adom and Professor Joseph Adjei, Professor Mawuko-Yevugah, is currently the Acting Director of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance at GIMPA.
He is also the immediate past Head of Department for Public Management and International Relations, and the Founding Coordinator of the PhD programme at the GIMPA School of Public Service and Governance. He is the Editor of the Institute’s interdisciplinary Journal, the Greenhill Journal of Leadership and Governance; and serves as the Coordinator for the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre.
Prior to joining GIMPA in 2014, Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah, had taught at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University, both in Canada and at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
He is also currently an Adjunct Faculty in Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University Ghana, as well as Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana, Legon.
He is also affiliated with Graduate Institute of International Relations and Development, Geneva serving as an External Faculty of the master’s in development policies and Practices Programme.
Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta in Canada, specializing in international relations and comparative political economy. He studied for MPhil in Development Studies as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Cambridge in the UK, having graduated with Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons.) in Political Science and Linguistics from the University of Ghana, Legon.
He also held a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Research Fellowship at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He is an alumnus of the Graduate Institute of International Relations and Development, Geneva where he held Global South Young Scholars Research Fellowship.
Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah, has published widely in the areas of international political economy; aid and international development cooperation; comparative politics of development in Africa; political economy of Ghana; and postcolonial theory. He is the author of a number of books including, Made in Ghana: Reflections on Governance and Power Shifts (University of Ghana Press, 2018); Reinventing Development: Aid Reform and Technologies of Governance in Ghana (Routledge, 2016); African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World (Ashgate, 2015).
Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah’s current research focuses on various forms of exploitation and human rights abuse in Ghana’s mining and Petro-chemical industrial complex. He has been involved in several research, consultancy and training activities funded by the Government of Ghana and international partners such as the United Nations system, the European Union, African Union, DANIDA, USAID, MasterCard Foundation, French Development Agency and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah is a member of several professional associations and is a life-time Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society. He is a recipient of the Young Scholars Fellowship of the American Society of Public Administration; and was part of a team of researchers nominated by the African Union to develop Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
He is an external examiner for universities both within and outside Ghana and is a visiting scholar and trainer of trainers at the South African National School of Government. He also serves as a Senior Consultant at the UK-based Humanities Research Consultancy.
Apart from being an astute and internationally recognised academic, Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah worked as a journalist, serving as the Features Editor of the Business and Financial Times. He also worked with the Institute of Economic Affairs, Ghana as a Research Associate, and the Program Officer of the Institute’s Governance unit.
Born in Afife in the Volta Region of Ghana, Prof Mawuko-Yevugah attended Kadjebi-Asato Secondary School for his Ordinary level (‘O’ Level) and St. Augustine’s College, Cape Coast for his Advanced Level (‘A’ Level) certificates.
