Lloyd G. Adu Amoah (Ph.D) lectures at the Dept. of Political Science, University of Ghana, Legon and is founding and first director of the Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) at the same university. He was also former acting director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Ghana. Dr. Amoah taught for close to a decade at Ashesi University where he started his academic career. He is a fellow of the African Studies Centre and the International Institute of Asian Studies (where he did his postdoctoral work) both in Leiden, the Netherlands. Dr. Amoah is a member of the Ghana Studies Association, World Economics Association, Association for Heterodox Economics and the African Urban Planning Research Network.
His research focuses on administrative theory, strategy in government, Africa-Asia relations, technopolitics and ICT policy in developing countries and the political-economy of space, spatiality and architecture in developing polities.
Author of seven books, he has published several book chapters, journal articles (including the first ever journal special issue on relations between an African country[Ghana] and Korea) and reviewed scholarly works for leading publishers and journals. His views have been sought by the BBC World Service (World Today, Newsday, Network Africa, and Mandarin Service), Japan Broadcasting Corp., and other local and international media outlets. He has also consulted on Africa-Asia Affairs for some of the leading global institutions and won grants from blue chip entities such as KOICA(US$ 9million), Korea Foundation, Japan Foundation, Mellon Foundation and JICA among others.
