President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Professor Ransford Gyampo, a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, as Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA).
Prof Gyampo replaces Kwesi Baffour Sarpong, who was appointed in December 2024, under the erstwhile Akufo-Addo Administration.
Profile of Prof. Ransford Gyampo
Born on March 31, 1977, Prof Gyampo is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for European Studies of the University of Ghana, with 14 years of teaching and research experience.
Prof Gyampo holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Ghana and at Tufts University in Boston, United States.
His research interest lies in Youth Empowerment and Development, Governance, Democracy, and Natural Resource Management.
Until recently, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of South Florida, United States.
He currently serves as a Visiting Professor to the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
For 14 years, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Governance Unit of the Institute of Economic Affairs, leading several research projects and playing a key role in the Institute of Economic Affair’s (IEA) Socio-Economic and Governance Surveys.
For 10 years, Prof Gyampo also served as Coordinator of the Ghana Political Parties Programme, a programme that brought together the leadership of Political Parties with representation in Ghana’s Parliament to discuss issues of national importance in a non-partisan manner and to propose practical solutions to them.
He is a member of Ghana’s Electoral Reforms Committee and played a key role in identifying the challenges of Ghana’s electoral processes and submitting electoral reform proposals to the Electoral Commission for the purposes of fine-tuning Ghana’s electoral system.
He is also a member of the Representation of the People’s Amendment Act (ROPAA) Consultative Committee, a committee set up by the Electoral Commission to research, consult and advise on the implementation of the law that mandates Ghanaians living abroad to vote in Ghanaian elections.
Prof Gyampo has more than 100 research works to his credit within his areas of research interest.
These have been published in internationally refereed journals across the globe as Books, Book Chapters, Book Reviews, Peer Reviewed Journal Articles, Technical Reports, Monographs and Policy Briefs.
