21 Facts About Ernest Aryeetey

Ernest Aryeetey was previously vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana.

Ernest Aryeetey studied economics with statistics at the University of Ghana and took a master's degree in regional planning at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi and obtained a PhD from the University of Dortmund, Germany in 1985.

Ernest Aryeetey was elected Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Ernest Aryeetey was promoted senior research fellow in 1990, associate professor in 1997 and a full professor in 2000.

Ernest Aryeetey taught at the Department of Economics, University of Ghana.

Ernest Aryeetey has been Temporary Lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London ; visiting professor at Yale University Department of Economics ; and the Cornell Visiting Professor, Department of Economics at Swarthmore College.

Ernest Aryeetey is very well known for his work on informal finance and microfinance in Africa.

Ernest Aryeetey has consulted for various international agencies on a number of development and political economy subjects.

Ernest Aryeetey has presented seminar papers at Departments of Economics and Planning in such universities as Ohio State University, the University of Manchester, Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, New York University, University of Copenhagen, University of California, Los Angeles, Georgetown University, and Sophia University, Tokyo.

Ernest Aryeetey has published 3 books, 6 edited volumes, 32 journal articles and over 100 conference, working and discussion papers.

Ernest Aryeetey was the president of the Ghana Institute of Planners from 1998 until 2000.

Ernest Aryeetey is currently Board Chairman of the African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi.

Ernest Aryeetey is Chairman of the Governing Board of Achimota School.

Ernest Aryeetey is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex.

Ernest Aryeetey is a member of the Board of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC.

Ernest Aryeetey served as a Member of the Board of the Global Development Network New Delhi as well as of the Governing Board of the Centre for Development Research at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Ernest Aryeetey was a Managing Editor of the Journal of African Economies and was a member of the editorial board of Development Southern Africa and of African Development Review.

Ernest Aryeetey was the editor of the New Legon Observer.

Ernest Aryeetey was the Priest's Warden of Christ Church at University of Ghana.

Ernest Aryeetey served three terms as president of the Old Achimotan Association between 2015 and 2022.

Ernest Aryeetey is married to Ellen Bortei-Doku Ernest Aryeetey and has two children, James Nii Armah and Felicia Naa Dedei.