Dr. Patrick Swanzy is an education quality expert and policy developer, lecturing at the Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Patrick holds a PhD in Education from the University of Adelaide, Australia specialising in quality assurance in higher education. He earned his Master of Education (Administration) from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He was also a Carnegie Corporation of New York postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Post School Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa in 2017. Patrick also has a certificate in Disability Studies from Barkuma Inc, Adelaide in Australia.

Patrick has worked in the field of education in Ghana, South Africa and Mozambique. He has taught at every level from primary to tertiary and has also been involved in education administration. Currently, Patrick is a Guest Lecturer at the Higher Education Program, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University in USA and the Institute of Adult Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Ceara State University in Fortaleza, Brazil, Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He is a focal person for the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development Study Abroad Program in Ghana and the Tripartite Collaboration between the University of East Anglia, UK, Ceara State University, Brazil and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.

He is also a Reviewer for the Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan, the Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and the North-West University, all in South Africa. In 2024, Patrick served as a Policy Dialogue Reviewer on the theme: Development and Growth of Private Universities: Implications for Access, Equity, and Sustainability for the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Prior to his doctoral studies, Patrick was the Head of Practical Training at the Bolgatanga Polytechnic, Ghana.  At the University of the Western Cape, in South Africa, Patrick facilitated the Doctoral Program in Higher Education Studies (DPHES) funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Comparative Higher Education Policy and Innovation Studies (CHEPIS) jointly offered by the University of the Western Cape- South Africa; Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique; and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and sponsored by Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). He is experienced in supervising doctoral students from diverse backgrounds, such as Ethiopia, Botswana, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Uganda.

He was a Key Researcher for West Africa in a research project dubbed “Mapping Higher Education Policies in Africa (MHEPA)" funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and hosted at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He was also a Co-investigator of a research project titled “The Evaluation of Inclusive Education Programs for Transition-Age Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Botswana and Ghana” hosted at Michigan State University in the USA. In 2019, he won US$30000 from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa is Pan-African research organisation headquartered in Dakar, Senegal to "Re-conceptualize quality assurance in African higher education".

Patrick has served as a Consultant for the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), Ghana Office and Management 4 Education GmbH (M4Edu), Germany for the Development of Quality Assurance policy and tools for the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) of Ghana. In addition, he served as a Consultant for PLANCO Consulting GmbH, Germany and the Institute of International Education (IIE), New York. Patrick served as a reviewer for Springer Nature Singapore. He is a Carnegie Fellow, Senior Member of the South African Quality Institute and an Editorial Member for the Voices Against Torture (VAT) journal based in Vancouver, Canada. He has published in reputable journals in higher education studies.