24 Facts About Ivor Agyeman-Duah

Ivor Agyeman-Duah was born on 1966 and is a Ghanaian academic, economist, writer, editor and film director.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah has worked in Ghana's diplomatic service and has served as an advisor on development policy.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah was born in Kumasi, Ghana, in 1966, and was named after his father's friend, the British historian Ivor Wilks.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah is the founder and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Renewal, a Public Policy organization in Ghana.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah has done work for the World Bank and World Bank Institute in Washington, DC.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah was formerly head of Public Affairs at the Ghana Embassy in Washington, DC, and later Culture and Communication Advisor at the Ghana High Commission in London, and has been a consulting fellow of the African Center for Economic Transformation.

Also active in literary and cultural fields, Ivor Agyeman-Duah has written or edited many publications, including 2014's Crucible of the Ages: Essays in Honour of Wole Soyinka at 80, a book described as "a timely volume with majestic, priceless and supreme intellectual importance", featuring contributors including Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Busby, Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah was historical consultant to Margaret Busby's 2001 theatrical production about Yaa Asantewaa.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah is engaged in technical economic policy work on development in Rwanda, which country is the setting of his fictional story "The Good Ones".

Ivor Agyeman-Duah has been a Centenary Research Associate in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and a Governing Member of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah has worked on many international projects between 2005 and 2014 as a Member of a network that looked at the role of the African Diaspora in economic development at the World Bank Institute in Washington, DC, and part of a team for the Bank's capacity building for traditional authority project on heritage economics.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah has worked in Cote d'Ivoire for the Government and Novel Commodities as a consulting research team member and lead writer on production and marketing soft commodities: Constraints and Redevelopment of the Cocoa and Coffee Sectors in the Yamoussoukro District and Constraints and Redevelopment of Rice.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah was part of a team of scholars, policy makers and development specialists of the African Studies and Research Forum in Washington, DC, that was put together to assess US President George W Bush's Africa foreign policy, subsequently published as Assessing George Bush's Africa's Policy and Suggestions for Barack Obama and Assessing Barack Obama's Africa's policy.

For more than a decade, Ivor Agyeman-Duah has worked with the Nigerian Nobel laureate in Literature, Wole Soyinka on many projects including as associate director of the experimental Wole Soyinka Foundation with the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.

Together with Lucy Newlyn, a professor emeritus at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Ivor Agyeman-Duah was co-campaigner in Soyinka's electoral contest in the Oxford Professorship of Poetry appointment.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah was the inaugural curator of The John A Kufuor Museum and Presidential Library and part of the team that negotiated its infrastructural development at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi and at the University of Ghana, Legon.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah wrote for the London-based Panos Institute, the magazines West Africa and New African, and was editor of Some African Voices of Our Time, an anthology of conversations with African writers.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah initiated the agreement and final production engagement for the Discovery Channel on Ghana: Presidential Tour.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah was production Advisor to Moving Vision TV, Wales, for The Kingdom of Ashanti and produced Yaa Asantewaa: The Heroism of an African Queen.

An advisor to the King of Asante, Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II, on his visit to the Seychelles Islands, Ivor Agyeman-Duah followed up with The Return of a King to Seychelles.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah worked with Adzido Pan African Dance Ensemble on an Arts Council of England-funded year-long international mobile theatrical performance of Yaa Asantewaa: Warrior Queen.

In 2008, Ivor Agyeman-Duah was awarded the national honour of the Order of the Volta.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah was co-curator in 2004 in Washington, DC, of the exhibition Ancient Traditions and Contemporary Forms.

Ivor Agyeman-Duah previously served on the international board of the Pan-African Historical Theatre Project.