Stephen Yeboah (MDev ’14) among the Top 30 under 30 emerging Ghanaian talent.

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Elected in the “pioneer category” of Future of Ghana Publication, Stephen Yeboah (28 Years old) is a Research Fellow at the Africa Progress Panel (APP). He is engaged in policy research and media communications. His areas of research include agriculture, natural resources governance and sustainable development.

As a trained journalist, Stephen Yeboah has published more than ninety articles, op-eds and blogs on migration, aid, agriculture, mining, and oil and gas. He is also the Head of Research on Oil and Gas for Center for Social Impact Studies (CeSIS), a non-governmental organisation based in Ghana.

In 2014, his brief paper ‘’Crops or carats’ Interaction between gold mining and cocoa production and the livelihood dilemma in Amansie Central District of Ghana’ was selected as a runner-up in the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Young Scholars Think Piece Series on Extractive Industries and Social Development.

Stephen Yeboah completed his undergraduate programme in Development Planning at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana and holds a Master degree in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute.