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Professor Vincent Logah is a Soil Scientist in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, KNUST, Kumasi. He is the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Head of Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, KNUST and having also served two terms as Head of Department from 2017 to 2019. Professor Logah has served on many committees and boards at both the local and international fronts. Currently, he is the Management Board Chairman of the CSIR-Soil Research Institute. He is an Affiliate Professor with UM6P, Morocco and served as Co-Promoter with Wageningen University, Netherlands. He is a Fellow of the African Science Leadership Programme spearheaded by the University of Pretoria, South Africa and a Fellow, Future Earth. He has vast experience in international relations with over 50 major collaborations with diverse institutions across Africa, UK, Europe, Americas, Asia and Oceania in cutting-edge research, policy and extension. He has engaged widely on many high-level stakeholder platforms including the media and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). On invitation by the German Federal Government, he served as an Expert Panellist on soil carbon sequestration for the 2025 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Berlin. Professor Logah has notable successes in competitive grantsmanship from reputable funding organizations including the Royal Society-DFID (now FCDO) of the UK Government, Ministry for Primary Industries of the New Zealand Government, The World Bank Group, UM6P/OCP, Morrocco; RDF Ghana, International Fertilizer Development Centre, ENI Ghana, African Plant Nutrition Institute, among others. He has supervised many Soil Scientists across Africa and beyond including 30 PhDs (20 completed, 10 ongoing). He has several publications in reputable journals. In 2023, he received the KNUST Distinguished Researcher Award, the African Plant Nutrition Outreach Award and in 2024, the Faculty of Agriculture Award for unwavering dedication to academia and global impact.
