Mr Akwasi Addae-Boahene has an MSc degree from the University of Havana, professional training from the University of Ghana, Edinburgh University, McGill University, Leicester University School of Education and GIMPA. He is a strategic management, education policy, and reform expert with strong experience in the design and management of learning ecosystems and education reform programs. He has over 30 years working with communities, schools, districts, and policy makers across the entire education system in Ghana, creating partnerships and strengthening engagements. He has direct management experience implementing successful programs in education and policy reform for the Government of Ghana, with the World Bank, USAID, DFID, and the former Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). With more than 27 years of experience working with international development organisations, he has demonstrated continuous professional excellence, proven leadership and management abilities, and provided technical expertise in several education reform initiatives in Ghana, including education decentralisation, teacher education and curriculum reforms, and community participation in education delivery.

He is currently the Chief Technical Advisor of Transforming Teaching, Education and Learning (T-TEL), a Ghanaian Technical Assistance organisation providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Education in the implementation of Ghana’s Secondary Education Reform Programme. He was previously the Education Policy Advisor at the National Education Reform Secretariat of the Ghana Ministry of Education, and at the same time the Chief Technical Advisor for the implementation of a large scale teacher education reform (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning) programme owned by the Government of Ghana and funded by UK Aid from 2017 to 2020. Before then, he was the National Programme Manager of this same program implemented by Cambridge Education from 2015 to 2017.

Akwasi was the Executive Director of Associates for Development Partnerships (2013 to 2014) and the Country Director of World University Service of Canada (WUSC) in Ghana (2005 to 2013). In addition to his position as Country Director for WUSC, he was the Chief of Party for the Ghana Education Decentralization Project (GEDP) funded by USAID and implemented by WUSC in collaboration with the Ghana Ministry of Education (2010 to 2012), and Project Director for the Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai District Development Project.

He was briefly the Director for Field Operations for the SHAPE Project implemented by World Education based in Boston, USA and funded by USAID/Ghana in 2005, and before then, Associate Director for Field Activities  of Community School Alliances (CSA) Project under the USAID funded Quality Improvement in Primary Schools (QUIPS) Program in Ghana from May 1998 to December 2004.

In his current role, Akwasi is providing strategic and technical leadership in the development of a new secondary education curriculum in Ghana with a team of 250 subject experts.  

He believes that his participation and improved expertise through the fellowship programme will better prepare him to play a much bigger role in addressing the technology-use gaps that currently exist in Ghana’s secondary education system.