Dr. Precious Agbeko D Mattah

Dr. Precious Agbeko Dzorgbe Mattah, currently a Senior Research Fellow, joined the University of Cape Coast as a Research Fellow in 2009 after working in various establishments mainly as a Research Officer. He worked with The Directorate of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance (DAPQA) and was the head of the Academic Planning Section of the Directorate for six years. From March, 2018 he transferred to the Centre for Coastal Management (CCM) as a Research Fellow and have been teaching on part-time with the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. He is currently the Deputy Director for the Centre for Coastal Management and also double as the Deputy Centre Leader for the World Bank sponsored Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR).

Dr. Mattah is an Environmental Scientist by training. He pursued all his tertiary education in the University of Ghana, Legon. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography and Resource Development in 1996. From 2003 to 2006, he pursued an MPhil Degree in Environmental Science. He graduated with a PhD Degree in Environmental Science in 2015. From 2006 to 2008, he pursued a Postgraduate Diploma in Integrated Water Resources Management with the United Nations University- Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).

Dr. Mattah’s research interests include Coastal Disaster Management, Coastal Livelihoods, Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated Fishing, Wetlands Ecology and Hydrological Systems among others. He supervises MPhil and PhD students and serves as external examiner for postgraduate thesis from other Universities.

Dr. Mattah is currently the Deputy Director at the Centre for Coastal Management of the University of Cape Coast. He is also the Deputy Centre Leader for the Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR), a World Bank sponsored project in UCC. He co-manages other donor funded projects such as EU sponsored Power to the Fishers, GDN Biodiversity and Avu Lagoon Biodiversity Project among others being implemented at the Centre for Coastal Management.

Award	Awarding Institution/Organization	Year
Award for wining ACECoR	UCC	2020
Emerald Literati Award for best publication in Higher Education	Emerald Publishers	2018

Fellowship	Institution	Year

Professional Body	Position	Year
• Union for African Population Studies (UAPS),	Member	2012
University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG)	Member	2009

Title	Position	Duration
Avu Lagoon Conservation Project, CAD$ 550,000	Project Director	April 2022 - Present
Power to the fishers’ project: Euro 35,000.	Principal Investigator	January 2020 - Present
World Bank Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR): US 6.5 million	Deputy Director	January 2019 - Present
Biodiversity Project in the Keta Lagoon Complex Ramsar Site: US$ 60,000	Co-Principal Investigator	November 2024 - Present
West Africa Coastal Area (WACA) Programme’s Multi-Sector Investment Plan for Ghana Project: US$60,000.	Co-Principal Investigator	November 2024 - Present