I am George Ashiagbor, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Wildlife and Range Management at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where I trained as a geodetic and geomatic engineer before taking my doctorate in applied geo-information science in 2021. My research examines land-use change in Ghana's forest–agriculture landscapes across four connected strands: mapping and independently validating national forest cover products for regulatory compliance; the socio-ecological trade-offs of cocoa, rubber and mining expansion, particularly the displacement of food cropland; habitat and biodiversity assessment, from forest elephant connectivity to wetland bioindicators; and precision agronomy and canopy modelling in cocoa agroforestry systems. This has yielded thirty-five refereed journal articles and institutional reports, and grants exceeding two hundred thousand dollars from the African Plant Nutrition Institute, the European Forest Institute and Gold Fields Limited, following earlier awards through Forests 2020, CIFOR and IUCN.

Much of my work is commissioned: I have validated Ghana's national forest and land-cover maps for the European Forest Institute and the World Bank, mapped cocoa-driven deforestation for WWF Japan, produced time-series maps of mining inside and outside forest reserves for the Nature and Development Foundation, and built harmonised classification schemes distinguishing agroforestry from open forest for Ecometrica and CIFOR. In service I have been Examinations Officer, Chairman of the Departmental Accreditation Committee, coordinator of the GISNATUREM postgraduate programme since 2014, and Non-Professorial Representative on the Faculty and College Boards. Nationally I sit on the Forestry Commission's MRV Sub-Working Group; internationally I serve as Topic Editor for Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, jury member for the Erasmus Mundus GEM programme, KNUST focal person for IMSOGLO, and reviewer for numerous journals. I have supervised forty-six undergraduate and thirteen postgraduate students, converting their strongest work into peer-reviewed publications — the thread that binds my research, consultancy and institutional service together.