Dr Jacob Nunoo is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Applied Economics of the School of Economics, UCC. He serves as the current Head of Department. Dr Nunoo BA, MPhil and PhD economics degrees from the School of Economics of the University of Cape Coast. Dr Nunoo has served the University for the past 17 years in various capacities of which 14 years has been as a Lecturer. His services in the University started in 2007 as a Research Assistant and was promoted to the rank of Principal Research Assistant on 2010 and in the same year he became a Lecturer at the then Department of Economics.
Dr Nunoo has expertise in applied economics research with interest development, energy and labour economics and economics of education. As a University lecturer, he has taught courses in principles and elements of microeconomics and macroeconomics, labour economics, development economics, personal financial decision making, e-commerce economics, research methods, blue economy and managerial economics etc. Dr Nunoo has participated in training programs organized by institutions like IMF Training Institute, the Bank of Ghana, AERC, IIEP [UNIESCO] and UN-WIDER in economics of climate change and climate change science and modelling, inflation targeting, panel and time series econometrics and qualitative research data analysis and management. Dr Nunoo has published a number of papers in refereed journals. He has co-authored two books published by CODESRIA and Palgrave Macmillian.
Dr Nunoo has consulted for organisations like ILO, FAO and UNICEF. His consultations are in areas like employment creation, social protection and agricultural value chain. He has worked on worker precarity and multiple jobholding holding issues. As a Co-Investigator, Dr Nunoo together with other colleagues produced two reports on employment opportunities in the agriculture and construction sectors of Ghana for the ILO. He has also completed projects for DRIC-UCC.
Dr Nunoo's outreach services include serving the University on a number of committees including asset disposal and internalization and ranking committees. He also serves as a facilitator for the Parliament of Ghana's Post Budget Workshop since 2015.