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Stephen-Yeboah

Stephen Yeboah

Class of 2011
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Co-founder, Commodity Monitor

Stephen Yeboah is the co-founder and CEO of Commodity Monitor Limited, a trading, logistics and research company based in Accra, Ghana. Commodity Monitor provides contributions to the sustainable production, supply and consumption of commodities in Africa, including agriculture, mining, and oil and gas. The company is leading the deployment of improved technology in the mining sector in Ghana and other African countries through mercury-free mineral processing techniques. The technology is present in Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Zambia, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gabon and Central African Republic. He has more than ten years of experience in research and policy analysis in Africa’s extractive sector, agriculture, energy, climate and was a Research Fellow at the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a non-profit chaired by the late former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, from 2013 to 2016. He has also consulted for the African Development Bank (AfDB).

He has been twice recognized as LinkedIn Top Voice on Economy and Finance in 2017 and Philanthropy and Global Development in 2018. 
He has published more than 100 articles, blogs and papers on energy and climate, finance, agriculture, natural resources governance and sustainable development in Africa and holds a Master in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland.