Kwaku Appiah-Adu is a Professor of Strategy, and a Senior Advisor at the Vice President’s Secretariat, Office of the President, Republic of Ghana. Currently, he coordinates the Energy Sector Recovery Programme, and chairs the AfCFTA’s Infrastructure-related Technical Working Group.

From 2018–2020, Kwaku played a lead role in several ground-breaking national initiatives including: the processes of birthing Ghana’s Integrated Aluminium Development Project; Ghana’s Integrated Iron and Steel Development Project; the organisation of Ghana’s first digital roadmap conference aimed at making Ghana the preferred ICT innovation hub in Africa; and, the development of Ghana’s Integrated Digital Transformation Blueprint, among others.

Previously, Kwaku worked at the Office of the President, Ghana, where he was Head of Policy Coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation, Chairman of the Oil and Gas Technical Committee, Director of Ghana’s Central Governance Project, member of the President’s Investors’ Advisory Council, and Advisory Board member of the UN Initiative on Continental Shelf Delineation. Prior to that, Kwaku worked as a manager at PwC’s policy, strategy and management division, and as an architect/project manager of multimillion-dollar residential, retail, office and industrial projects in the United Kingdom.

In academia, he has served as Dean of Central University Business School and lectured at the Universities of Cardiff and Portsmouth. He is an author of several books. His recent edited/co-edited titles are:
Contemporary Business Imperatives in a Developing Economy (2020);
Context: Executing Strategy in a Developing Economy (2018);
Key Determinants of National Development (2015);
Governance of the Petroleum Sector in an Emerging Developing Economy (2013).
With over 100 publications, he has facilitated workshops and presented papers at numerous international fora. He is Board Chairman, Glico Pensions Trustee Ltd; and a Director of Vivo Energy Ghana Ltd; Ghana Grid Company Ltd; Golden Beach Hotels Ltd; and, Switchback Developers Ltd.

Kwaku is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been elected to the ANBAR Hall of Excellence for Outstanding Contribution to the Literature and Body of Knowledge. He has received several honours, including the President’s Crystal Awards for exceptional contribution to business environment reforms and national development.