A MAN WITH VISION
PROFILE OF PROFESSOR. NICHOLAS N. N. NSOWAH-NUAMAH
Professor Nicholas N. N. Nsowah-Nuamah is a full Professor of Statistics and has headed three Higher Education Institutions – currently the President of Dominion University College (DUC) and previously Kumasi Polytechnic/Kumasi Technical University and Regent University College of Science and Technology. He is the immediate past Vice President of the Association of African Universities (AAU) responsible for West Africa (2017-2021). He is the Chairman of the Council of Independent Universities, an umbrella organisation of private universities in Ghana.
Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah became the Rector of Kumasi Polytechnic (now Kumasi Technical University) in November 2010 with the vision that the Polytechnic would be converted to a University by the end of his tenure. He vigorously pursued this vision to the extent that the Government of Ghana decided to convert the Polytechnics in Ghana to Technical Universities. He spearheaded and led this conversion to its logical conclusion and in August 2016, four of the ten Polytechnics were converted, followed by two others in the same year.
Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah became the Pioneer (Interim) Vice Chancellor of the Kumasi Technical University but went on retirement on December 31, 2016. On January 4, 2017, he assumed the position of the President of Regent University College of Science and Technology, where he had been the Chairman of the Governing Council since its inception in 2005.
Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah was the Chairman of the Conference of Rectors of Polytechnics (CORP) in Ghana from 2014 to 2015. He represented the CORP on the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) – the regulatory body for higher education in Ghana – and the National Accreditation Board (NAB), the regulatory body for accrediting higher education insitutions and some of their subcommittees. The two bodies – NCTE and NAB – have now been merged to form the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC).
Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah obtained his Ph.D in Statistics from Moscow State University in 1987. He was a lecturer at the Department of Statistics, University of Ghana for the period 1987 -1992 and rose to a full Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research ( ISSER) in the same university in 2002.
Professor Nsowah-Nuamah was the Deputy Government Statistician of the Republic of Ghana from 2004 to 2009. During his tenure as Deputy Government Statistician, he also acted as the Government Statistician for eleven continuous months , Durning which. time GSS became very visible in the country. He was one of the three-member team who represented the Ghana Government to meet the IMF/World Bank Mission Team to review the economy of Ghana during his five and a half years at Ghana Statistical Service. The other members were the then Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (now the Vice President of Ghana), and the Minister of State for Finance at the Ministry of Finance.)
Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah is a prolific writer. He has published more than fifty refereed papers in international journals and twenty (20) books in various areas in Statistics, some of which are widely used in Ghanaian and some African universities and polytechnics. He has also presented a host of scientific papers in international conferences and workshops. He has peer-reviewed five books in Statistics for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society in the UK and the Supplementary Handbook to the International Manual on the Consumer Price Indices by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva.
Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah is a member of a number of professional associations and societies, including the Royal Statistical Society, U.K, the American Statistical Society and the International Statistical Institute, He has founded three Statistics Associations in Ghana: Ghana Statistical Association (GSA) in 1990 of which he is currently the President, Ghana Association of Statistics Students (GASS) in 1995 of which he is the Chief Patron, Ghana Association of Statistics Students Alumni (GASSA) in 2000), an association for young statisticians, of which he is the Chief Patron.
Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah has undertaken a number of projects as a public servant and as an academic. As a public servant at the Ghana Statistical Service, he had been involved in a number of projects, twelve (12) of which he was the National or Technical Coordinator, Including the Fifth Round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 5), the Maternal Mortality Survey, and the Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey. As a faculty member in academia, he had undertaken sixteen (16) projects, such as the Human Resource Development for Poverty Reduction and Household Food Security in Central West African Sub-Region and “Factors affecting International Migration Flows in Ghana”..
Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah has consulted for a number of international organizations, including; Department For International Development (DFID), Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Economic Commission for West Africa (ECOWAS), MICRO International, Educational Assessment and Research Centre (EARC), World Vision, International Labour Organization (ILO), HelpAge Ghana, and the World Bank.
He has been a member of thirty five (35) National Committees (including the National Steering Committee on Census Of Agriculture, the National Programme on Elimination of Child Labour in Cocoa (NPECLC), the National Technical Working Group on Social Protection and Livelihood, Census Technical Advisory Committee, National Population Council, Ghana Aids Commission, National Health Metrix), eight of which he was the Chairman (including the Technical Sub-Committee of the National Tripartite Committee, Trade Sector Support Programme Consultative Group on Data Quality, the ILO-IPEC Steering Committee on Child Labour, the Technical Working Group on Integrating Child Labour Indicators in Socio-Economic and Demographic Surveys).
Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah received Prize Awards when he was a student: Lenin Prize (Highest Award) for Best Student (for three consecutive years at Odessa Institute of National Economy in the then USSR), Prize winner of National Inter-Institutional Competition on MSc. dissertation, awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education of the then USSR; Prize winner of the Competition of Students’ Scientific Research works, awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education of the then Ukraine Republic in the USSR.
Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah has the following honours to his credit: Marquis WHO is WHO in the World in 1996, Certificate of Honour (Senior Citizen) awarded alongside and in the presence of His Excellency, J. A. Kufour, the then President of the Republic of Ghana on October 21, 2001 at Dunkwa-Offin by Denkyira Traditional Council. The International Institute for Governance and Development recognized his works and academic achievements in a ceremony in South Africa. The first Edition of the Afro-Leadership Magazine was dedicated specially to his outstanding works and academic achievements.
Detailed information about Professor Nicholas Nsowah-Nuamah can be obtained at his website: https://nsowah-nuamah.fvtechgh.com
