Professor Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe
IAS Africa Summit
University of Ghana
Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe is a Professor of Population Studies at the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), and Provost of the College of Education, University of Ghana.
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography and Resource Development at the University of Ghana in 1989, a Master of Philosophy degree in Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway in 1994 and a PhD in Geography and Soil Science at the University of Bonn, Germany in 2004. He also holds a Post-graduate Certificate in Administration and Management.
He started his career as a Research Officer with the Population Impact Project in 1999. He was appointed a Lecturer at the University of Ghana in 2004, promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer in 2008, Associate Professor in 2011, and Professor in 2015. He has served as Deputy Director of RIPS and Director for six years.
Prof. Codjoe has been a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator of over 20 major funded international projects. He has mentored and supervised 3 Research Fellows; 9 Post-Doctoral Candidates; 32 PhDs; 15 MPhil candidates; and over 40 MA students. He has co-authored publications in the areas of Population Health; Urbanisation; Population and Environment; and Climate Change. He is an Editorial Board Member for Regional Environmental Change and PLOS Climate journals and Associate Editor for Frontiers in Climate. Prof. Codjoe has also held honorary positions as Vice President for the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) and President of UAPS from 2015 to 2019.