I am an Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and the Director of the Centre for Social Policy Studies (CSPS), both at the University of Ghana.

I am a scholar of social policy and social development with over 20 years’ experience in research, teaching, community development and policy engagement. I have a BA in Psychology from the University of Ghana and a PhD in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University. My research interest is in how young people and women, as marginalized social groups, attempt to construct better lives for themselves against the backdrop of generally unfavourable policy processes and structures. My work - published in journals in development studies, youth studies and gender studies - often contains themes of agency, participation and empowerment.

I am deeply committed to advancing African-led scholarship on social development and social policy across the continent. I am co–Principal Investigator of the Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy in Africa (GETSPA) Project, a pan-African initiative aimed at reshaping the discourses, scholarship, and practice of social policy on the continent. I currently co-chair the Advisory Board of the SSRC's African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) Program, which promotes African scholarship on peacebuilding, governance, and development in Africa.

My professional service includes leadership roles in academic associations and university governance. In addition to a recently concluded tenure as the elected faculty representative on the Council of the University of Ghana, I have served on the Executive Committee of the Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the Board of Directors of the African Studies Association (ASA), and as President of the Ghana Studies Association (GSA).