Baffour Agyeman-Duah

Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah has, since 2014, been the CEO of The John A. Kufuor Foundation, founded by a former President of the Republic of Ghana. Earlier, from 2008 to 2013, he was a Senior Special Advisor to the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and, from 2005 to 2008, the Senior Governance Advisor (UNDP) in Tanzania. 

He was Associate Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), an independent public policy think-tank, which he co-founded in 1998. He continues to serve on the Center’s Board of Governors. He was a member of the Governing Council of the University of Ghana, the country’s premier university, from 2017 to 2024.

He served in Liberia in 1977 and Nigeria in 1998-99 as Elections Technical Expert for the US-based National Democratic Institute. As Elections Consultant with the Commonwealth Office in London, he served in Zimbabwe (2000), Sierra Leone (2002) and Cameroon (2004).

Between 1999 and 2004, he was an adjunct faculty member of the African Center for Strategic Studies (U.S. Defense Department), and participated in the ACSS Senior Leadership Seminars in Senegal, Botswana, Ethiopia and Washington, DC. 

He studied at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana; Ohio University; and the Josef Korbel School of International Affairs, University of Denver, where he earned the PhD degree in 1984. Between 1985 and 1994 he taught at Bennett College and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA, and was a Fulbright Professor at the Legon Center for International Affairs, University of Ghana (1994-96). 

In addition to journal articles and book chapters, Prof. Agyeman-Duah has published monographs, edited two books including Ghana: Governance in the Fourth Republic (2008) and authored three books, United States and Ethiopia: Military Assistance and the Search for Security (1994); My Ghanaian Odyssey (2012); and General Acheampong: The Life and Times of Ghana’s Head of State (2021).