Kwame Akyeampong is a Professor of International Education and Development with an academic career spanning over 30 years. He started his career in Ghana at the University of Cape Coast in 1989 where he rose to become the Director of the Institute of Education in 2003. In 2004 he moved to the University of Sussex and in 2020 joined the Open University, UK where he founded the Centre of the Study of Global Development (CSGD). He has researched and published on teacher education and education interventions in several African countries. His latest co-authored book “Reconceptualising the Learning Crisis: Multidimensional Pedagogies of African Accelerated Learning Programmes” was published in late 2025. Kwame has held many internation posts over the course of his career. He was appointed a visiting Professor at the Centre for the Study of International Co-operation in Education (CICE) at Hiroshima University, Japan in 2001 and a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA in 2002. From 2010 to 2013, UNESCO appointed him as a Senior Policy Analyst for the Global Education Monitoring Report in Paris. Currently, he co-chairs the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP), is a board member of Luminos Fund Foundation, and he serves on the Advisory Committee of the Yidan Prize Foundation. Kwame is a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, Germany.
