Prof. Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa

Emeritus Professor


Dept: Planning
Room 408
New Block
Faculty of Built Environment
College of Art and Built Environment

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Research Areas/Interests

Urbanisation and growth of human settlements Transportation planning and Transport economics Land use planning ...~more


Positions Held & Hold

a) National

 

Council Chairman, Governing Council of the Institute of Local Government Studies (September 2021 to Date)

Council Chairman, Governing Council of the Agogo Presbyterian Women’s College of Education (2019 to Date)

Chairman, Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority of Ghana (2016 to Date)

Council Chairman, Governing Council of the University College of Agricultural and Environmental Studies, Bunso, Eastern Region (2011 to Date)

Council Chairman, Governing Council of Kessben University College Kuntenase, Lake Road, Kumasi (2012 – to Date)

Chairman, Kumasi Venue Local Organising Committee of CAN2008 (2006 to 2008).

Member, Presidential Advisory Committee on Decentralisation (2004 to 2005)

External Examiner, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, Legon (1998 to 2002)

External Assessor, Ghana Academy of Arts and Science (2005)

External Assessor, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research: Building and Road Research Institute (1995 and 2001)

External Assessor, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research: Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (2006).

External Examiner, Department of Geography and Tourism, University of   Cape Coast, Cape Coast (1997 to 2004).

External Examiner, University for Development Studies, Tamale (1996 to 1999)

Member, National Task Force on Science and Technology Policy (2002)

Member, National Human Settlements Task Force, Ghana (1993)

External Examiner, University of Ghana, Legon – Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (2002 to 2004)

Chairman, Presbyterian Church of Ghana’s Strategic Planning Committee (2001 to 2003)

Member, Board of Directors of Akuapem Rural Development Foundation (1983 to 1986)

Member, Department of Administration, Presbyterian Church of Ghana (2004)

Member, Search Committee for a Chairperson for the Asante Presbytery (2004)

Member, Committee for the Establishment of the Faculties of Social Sciences, Humanities and Development Studies at the Presbyterian University College, Akropong Campus (2004)

President, Men’s Fellowship, Presbyterian Church of Ghana, KNUST Local (1990 to 2001)

President, Men’s Fellowship, Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Asante Presbytery (2001 to 2006)

Vice President, Kumasi District Men’s Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church   of Ghana (1996 to 2001)

Member/Career Counsellor, Mfantsipim Old Boys’ Association – Ashanti Regional Branch (1976 to 2006)

Member, KNUST Alumni Association (1976 to date)

President, Aburi Club – Ashanti Regional Branch (1998 to date)

Chairman, Board of Directors of Jewalk Company Limited – General Electrical and Civil Engineering Contractors (1998 to date)

Co-Director, Transportation and Development Planning Consultancy Limited (1989 to 2001)

Partner, Vision Consult Ltd. – Engineering and Transport Consultancy Firm (2003 to date)

Member, National Planning Committee on Female Vocational Training Programme – Presbyterian Church of Ghana (2001 to 2004)

Member, Strategic Planning Committee of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (2000 to 2004)

Member, Asante Presbytery Sub-Committee on Information Management, Logistics and Strategic Planning (2002 to 2004)

Member, Asante Presbytery Sub-Committee on Church Life and Nurture (2002 to date)

 

b) International

 

Trainer, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nairobi, Kenya (1998 to 2004)

Member, International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (2000 to 2005)

Member, International Selection Committee for SPRING Programme (1995 to 2003)

Member, Club du Sahel – West Africa Long Term Perspective Group (1993 to 1996)

Member, Africa Regional Development Forum (1999 to date)

Patron, SPRING International Association of Development Planners (1996 to 1998)

 

 c) Others – Hall of Residence/Student Affairs

 

Hall Master, SPRING Hostel, KNUST, Kumasi (1996 to 2000)

Patron, Ghana Association of Student Planners (1986 to 2002)

Chief Patron, Faculty of Environmental Studies Students’ Society (1996 to 2003)

Patron, Akuapem Students’ Association of KNUST, Kumasi (1989 to 2002)


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