Kwabena Barima Antwi was educated at the University of Bradford, UK, and Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana). He is
currently the Vice Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Geography and
Regional Planning as an Associate Professor in Geography of Development, Social
Planning and Management. He is a scholar with varied background and engage both
undergraduate and graduate students and teach courses such as Regional Analysis and
Development Planning, Strategic Development and Project planning, Rural Resource
Management, Population Policy and National Development among others. Prof. Antwi is
a Ghanaian and has worked with the Ministry of Health for five years at the regional level
before joining the Department of Geography Regional Planning (Formally Geography and
Tourism) in 1998, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
His area of research interest includes Public Sector Reform; Human and Institutional
Capacity Building of Local Governments; Poverty Studies, Social and Technology-driven
Development. He has published a number of peer reviewed papers on issues of integrated
development, including: Leadership as the bane of Africa’s underdevelopment challenges;
Decentralization as a panacea to poverty reduction and Gender disparity in technology and
productivity; and Women in Local Governance for Sustainable Development in
Ghana. Prof. Antwi co-directed a Chevening Public Sector Reform short course for
developing countries organized by the Bradford Centre for International Development (i.e.
2005-2009) funded by the British Commonwealth and Foreign Office where he led
participants for study tours to many places in the UK.
