Professor Peter Quartey has been appointed Provost of the College of Education at the University of Ghana, effective August 1, 2026. He will serve a three-year term in the position. Quartey brings extensive academic, administrative and institutional leadership experience to the role, having served in several senior positions at the University of Ghana and on a number of national and international boards.
He is currently the Acting Director of the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), a position he has held since 2025. He is also the immediate past Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and former Executive Director of the ReFinD Research Initiative at ISSER. Previously, he served as Head of the Department of Economics and Deputy Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Ghana.
The College of Education, established in 2014, comprises three schools, a centre and two city campuses. It also mentors six Colleges of Education: Accra College of Education, Peki College of Education, Mount Mary College of Education, E.P. College of Education, Enchi College of Education and Gbewaa College of Education.
The College offers a broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate and distance education programmes in education and related disciplines. These include programmes in early-grade, upper-primary and junior high school education, information technology, business administration, social studies, languages, performing arts, physical education and health, computer science and consumer science. At the postgraduate level, its programmes cover areas including communication studies, information studies, strategic communication, distance education and e-learning, development education, educational technology, human resource development, youth development, community development and social innovation, education innovation and strategy, learning sciences and technology, educational leadership and management, and innovation in education pedagogy.
Quartey holds a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, an MSc in Quantitative Development Economics from the University of Warwick, and an MPhil and Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Ghana. He is a Professor of Economics with more than 24 years of experience, particularly i…
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