Dr. Kwabena Oteng Acheampong recently graduated with his SJD from Harvard Law School from where he also obtained his LL.M. and specialized among others in law and technology. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, where he currently teaches Public International Law. Prior to joining GIMPA 2013, he worked for more than one decade (from 2021 to 2014) at Ghana’s Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), where he investigated several high-profile human rights and anti-corruption complaints and allegations. In his last role at the CHRAJ as the Special Assistant to the Chair of the Commission, he helped shape key human rights promotion and research strategies. Also in that capacity, he was key in the formulation of policies and legislation in Ghana’s anti-corruption drive.
Following the establishment of the Constitution Review Commission (CRC)in January 2010 to review Ghana’s 1992 Constitution, he supported the CRC as one of the Commission’s Counsels/Researchers, during which he was the lead author of the chapters on Ghana’s Public Service and Independent Constitutional Bodies in the CRC Report. Dr. Acheampong is a Director at the Law and Development Associates (LADA), from where he has led or played significant roles in several consultancy assignments for different governments in the West African sub-region, including The Gambia, Liberia, and Sierra Leone; and international institutions including the World Bank, the UNDP and other UN agencies.
These projects cut across several fields and sub-fields including constitutional governance; health reforms; natural resource governance; law and policy advocacy; energy financing and infrastructures, justice sector reform and rights-based approaches to development. His contributions to these projects have included undertaking legislative and policy audit, gap analysis, and international benchmarking; legal and policy reform activities such as identification and isolation of policy/legal/operational issues, aligning the draft reforms with stakeholder and expert feedback, chaperoning the reforms through their approval processes, and assisting implementing agencies both to disseminate and internalize the final reforms. Dr. Acheampong also holds degrees from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (B.Sc. Agriculture) and the University of Ghana (LL.B.).
