Dr Eric Addae-Kyeremeh

Dr Eric Addae-Kyeremeh is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership and Management and since 2016 has been the Associate Head of School- Innovation; in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, here at the Open University. As Associate Head of School, he has overall responsibility for teaching and learning innovation, business development, and a portfolio of international education and development projects.

Eric has over 20 years professional experience that involves teaching, training, knowledge transfer, scholarship and research. He has significant experience, knowledge and understating of academic standards of taught postgraduate qualifications and has held external examining positions on postgraduate qualifications at the UCL Institute of Education (2012-2016) and University of Strathclyde (2013-2017). He was also an academic reviewer for one of the postgraduate qualifications at the Arab OU from 2012-2015. As a Chartered Manager (CMgr) and Chartered IT Professional (CITP), his expertise extends to capacity building, organisational development and learning technologies.

Prior to joining the Open University in 2011, Eric worked in the Further Education (FE) sector in England from 2000-2010, firstly as a lecturer in Computing and ICT and then in a range of leadership and management positions. During his career in FE he led and managed a number of subject areas including science and mathematics; Information and communication technology; and business, administration and law.

Membership of professional associations and learned societies

Dr Addae-Kyeremeh was admitted into Chartered Fellowship by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT in 2012 for demonstrating leadership, eminence and authority in the area of educational technologies. In recognition of his expertise, significant impact and contribution to leadership and management in education and training he was awarded Chartered Fellowship of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) in the same year.

• Chartered Fellow of The Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
• Chartered Fellow of the BCS-The Chartered Institute for IT 
• Senior Fellow of  AdvanceHE (previously Higher Education Academy)
• Member of British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS)
• Member of Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM)

Dr Addae-Kyeremeh has expertise in providing technical assistance to policy makers in LMIC and leading large scale international projects. He worked as OU Academic Director of the DfID-funded  Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL)  programme in Ghana 2014 -2015. He was also the critical reviewer of the recent national policy and curriculum framework for Pre-Tertiary Education Curriculum (2018) in Ghana. He previously co-led the school leadership development strand of TESS-India, a £10million DfID funded programme across 7 states in India.

Eric is currently Key Advisor on the OpenSTEM Ghana project providing high level policy guidance as well as leading on the development and implementation of CPD for teachers and middle leaders in senior high schools.