Research Fellows

Dr. Eric Osei-Assibey

Dr. Eric Osei-Assibey is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), where he conducts research into topical national development and macroeconomic issues, and regularly leads discussions with relevant state and non-state actor stakeholders. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Ghana, and also the Acting Head of the Department of Distance Education of the same University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and a Non-resident Research Fellow at the Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQI), Tulane University, USA.

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He holds a PhD in Development Economics from Nagoya University, Japan. He is also a Post-Graduate Scholar at the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) at the Brown University, USA, where he studied ‘Development and Inequality in the Global South’. Dr. Osei-Assibey’s research interests are in banking, macroeconomic and fiscal policy issues, poverty and inequality reduction, as well as, trade policy and finance issues. He has published extensively in these areas in highly rated peer reviewed journals such as the Journal of International Development, Journal of Economic Studies, Review of Development Economics, The Development Journal, International Journal of Social Economics, Saving and Development Journal, Journal of Financial Economic Policy, etc. He has also consulted for many international and national organizations including, the World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, ECOWAS Commission, GIZ, IDL Group, UK, PwC, IFPRI, USAID, Oxfam, NDPC, MoF, MOTI, GEPA, GSS etc. Dr. Osei-Assibey has also attended and presented papers in several high profile international and domestic conferences and Workshops.

Prof. John Asafu-Adjaye

Prof. John Asafu-Adjaye is a Senior Research Fellow at the IEA and a formerly lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia. At the IEA, Prof. Asafu-Adjaye has contributed to the Institute’s work on the oil and gas sector. He led the team that produced the IEA’s P-TRAC Index Report that tracked progress in transparency and accountability in the oil and gas sector. He is a one-time editor of the Ghana Policy Journal, published by the IEA.

From 2012, Prof. Asafu-Adjaye was the team leader of a 3-year IEA project funded by the Danish Agency for International Development (DANIDA) entitled “Options for Managing Climate Variability and Market Risks for Smallholder Maize-Legume Farmers in Northern Ghana”. The project involved collaboration between Ghanaian and Danish scientists and included the training of two PhD students and one Master of Philosophy (MPhil) who were registered at the University of Ghana and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

He holds a BSc (Hons) degree from the University of Ghana, an MSc. from the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK and a PhD (Natural Resources and Environmental Economics) from the University of Alberta, Canada.

Dr Michael Ofori-Mensah

Dr. Michael Ofori-Mensah is a Senior Research Fellow and former Director of Research at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). He was responsible for developing and managing the research work of both the Economics and Governance centres of the IEA. Michael was also a member of the Institute’s management team. After joining the IEA in 2010, he coordinated a broad range of national and international projects – and contributed to several public policy reform initiatives in the area of governance.

Michael has also provided technical support to many key institutions including Ghana’s Parliament, which he advised on legislation such as the Presidential (Transition) Act. In 2011, he was a Member of Ghana’s statutory petroleum revenue oversight body – the Public Interest Accountability Committee. Michael has undertaken research on business, economic and political issues; he has also authored several publications on institutional reform, anti-corruption and public financial management.

Michael has extensive experience in the financial sector having previously worked as an analyst at firms such as Citigroup in the UK and Fidelity Investments in the USA. Michael holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc (Econ) in Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a BA (Hons) in Economics and Politics from the University of Kent.