President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Prof. Ransford Gyampo, as the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Shippers Authority.
Prof. Gyampo replaces Kwesi Baffour Sarpong who was appointed by the previous administration.
The appointee until his appointment was a lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon.
Prof. Gyampo is expected to lead the team at the Council in achieving its vision, which is to ensure a competitive, transparent, and predictable commercial shipping industry in Ghana that creates value for the shipper across all modes of transport.
He is expected to, among other things, help the Council develop clear solutions and regulations for shippers on issues like demurrage, port/border crossing delays, freight rates, local charges, service standards.
About Prof. Gyampo
Prof. Ransford Edward Van Gyampo is a professor of political science and the founding director of the Centre for European Studies of the University of Ghana, with 20 years of teaching and research experience.He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Ghana and Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. His research interest lies in the areas of governance, leadership,, and democratic development in Ghana and Africa; youth empowerment and development; natural resource management; electoral studies; Ghanaian and African politics; maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea; and building resilient peace in Africa.
He is a visiting scholar at the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of South Florida in the USA. He is also a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. For 14 years, he worked at the Governance Unit of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA-Ghana), rising through the ranks as research assistant to the position of senior research fellow.
Prof Gyampo also worked at the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) as Senior Research Fellow for two years and assisted with research on the IDEG’s democratic devolution programmes that were aimed at giving more power of decision making on key governance issues, including the direct elections of Metropolitan/Municipal/District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) to the people at the grassroots. He heads the Youth Bridge Research institute (YBRI) and has been involved for the last 7 years, in the conduct of important research issues and policy engagements on matters germane to youth development, mentorship, and participation in decision making locally and nationally, in Ghana and Africa.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
