Kwame Akyeampong is Professor of International Education and Development at The Open University, UK. He has had an academic career spanning over 30 years and held several international posts. Kwame began his academic career in Ghana at the University of Cape Coast in 1989 where he served as the Director of the Institute of Education in 2002. In 2004 he took up an appointment at the University of Sussex and in 2013 became a professor of International Education and Development at the same University. He has researched and published on teacher education and led large-scale impact evaluation studies on education interventions in several African countries.

Kwame was appointed a visiting Professor at the Centre for the Study of International Co-operation in Education (CICE) at Hiroshima University, Japan in 2001 and Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA in 2002. He served as a Senior Policy Analyst at UNESCO, Paris for two years and in 2020 founded the Open University’s interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Global Development (CSGD).

Kwame co-chairs the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP), convened by the World Bank, UNICEF, USAID, and the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Currently, he serves on the board of Directors of the US-based Luminos Fund and is also a board member of Teaching at the Right Level (TARL) Africa. Kwame is a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, Germany.