Daniel Sakyi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and the Director of the Centre for Cultural and African Studies (CeCASt), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. He is a member of African Growth and Development Policy Modelling Consortium facilitated by akademiya2063 and a former Volkswagen Foundation Senior Fellow. Daniel serves as an expert trainer and consultant on regional/agricultural trade and development issues. He holds a BA (Economics and Geography) from KNUST, an Erasmus Mundus MA (Economics of International Trade and European Integration) from University of Antwerp (Belgium), and a Ph.D. (Economics) from University of Pisa (Italy). Daniel is specialized in development macroeconomics, international trade, and regional integration, and his research interests lie mainly in these areas with a focus on Africa and the developing world at large.

Daniel is a visiting Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies of University of Cantabria (Spain) and the African Economic Research Consortium’s Shared Facility for Specialisation and Electives hosted by the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He has also been a guest researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies of University of Cantabria (Spain) and the Centre for Development Research of University of Bonn (Germany). Daniel has executed several research projects either as the principal investigator or team member with research grants from a number of international organizations including the Volkswagen Foundation, the African Capacity Building Foundation, the International Growth Centre, and the African Economic Research Consortium. He has participated in several international conferences and workshops across the world. His research works have appeared in reputed peer reviewed journals including review of world economics, review of development economics, applied economics, the international trade journal, the journal of international trade and economic development, maritime economics and logistics, maritime policy and management, African development review, and journal of African trade, among others.