Engineer Professor Ernest Teye holds a BSc in Agriculture, an MSc in Research Methodology, an MPhil in Postharvest Technology and a PhD in Food Science & Engineering (won an Excellent PhD Award). Prof Teye is a talented Agri-food System Technology Innovator and a renowned Researcher at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, where he has shown great leadership in championing safer food for all from farm to fork by employing cutting-edge technology along the agricultural value chain. Having served as a visiting scholar to world-class Universities such as Makerere University (Uganda), Queen’s University of Belfast (UK), Jiangsu University (P. R. China), and Ulster University (UK), Prof Teye has contributed to global research findings and knowledge transfer with over 1500 citations and 65 publications in reputable indexed journals.

Prof Teye is also a Food Engineer and Postgraduate supervisor. He has currently supervised and trained several Masters and Ph.D. candidates at home and abroad. Prof Teye is deeply interested in the determination of Agri-food Integrity from farm to folk using Artificial Intelligence technologies. This interest has made him a global sought-after researcher and speaker at world conferences and workshops, especially after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic where many food systems were weakened. With his background in Agriculture, Postharvest Technology, Food Science and Engineering, Prof Teye has developed himself to become a global expert in Food Integrity and is particularly interested in using novel research findings to overcome food safety and fraud challenges while improving Agri-food production. 

Prof Teye also provides an advisory role to the International Atomic Energy Agency of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO /IAEA) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). Also, he serves as an external reviewer for; UNESCO - Organization for Women in Science for Development and other reputable international journals and organizations. By dint of hard work and dedication to novel research for development, Prof. Teye rose through the ranks from Senior Research Assistant to Associate Professor from 2014 to 2021 and has won several local and international awards/grants. Notable among a few are: the Best Evolving Researcher Award and Best Evolved Researcher Award for 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2023 respectively, Agilent Foundation Research Excellence Award, 2019 and United Kingdom Research Innovate Award, 2022. Furthermore, during the ‘plastic rice’ incidence that distracted the world’s rice value chain in 2017-2019, Prof. Teye was part of the global team and also leader of the African team mandated for developing a two-tier technique for onsite and offsite detection solution for the measurement of global rice integrity which was sponsored by USA Agilent foundation and MARS global. Since then, he has been engaged in several world-class projects with a high foreign inflow amounting to several US dollars. 

Currently, Engr Prof Ernest Teye is ranked the Agricultural Engineering Best Scientist at the University of Cape Coast, 2nd in Ghana, 11th in Africa and 113th in the World by the AD Scientific Index. Also, he is the director for seed and seedling in the Jospong-Asian African Consortium rice project and a founder/leader for the Africa Centre for Food Fraud and Safety (Afri-food-Integrity Centre) with the sole aim of making Ghana’s agricultural inputs authentic and the food produced safer for all.