Director
Joshua Yindenaba Abor is a Financial Economist, qualified Accountant and Professor of Finance with many years’ expertise, mainly in development finance and financial economics research, as well as in senior–level practitioner, policy and consulting roles. He is a former Dean of the University of Ghana Business School. He holds PhD in Finance from Stellenbosch University in South Africa after completing the PhD coursework (Financial Economics) at the Department of Economics, Harvard University, United States. He is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), UK. He is an External Fellow at the Centre for Global Finance, SOAS University of London, UK, an Adjunct Professor of Development Finance at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, and a researcher with the African Economic Research Consortium. He has also held Visiting Scholar positions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Washington DC and currently serves as Afreximbank Research Fellow. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the Canadian Economic Association, the Economic Society of South Africa, and a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has consulted extensively in finance, banking, financial markets, and development initiatives for a number of international and local institutions. He is also a member of the Bank of Ghana Monetary Policy Committee.