Kwame Akyeampong

Kwame Akyeampong

Kwame Akyeampong is a Professor of International Education and Development at The Open University (OU), UK, and Founder of the OU’s Centre for the Study of Global Development (CSGD). He serves on the Boards of Directors of T-TEL Ghana and the Luminos Fund, is a Strategic Advisor to the Jacobs Foundation, and a Member of the Advisory Committee of the Yidan Prize Foundation.

Kwame is also a Senior Fellow at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin and a Chen Yidan Global Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research interests focus on education in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular attention to educational change and policy, teacher development, assessment, equity, and the political economy of education systems.