GIDEON HOSU-PORBLEY

He is an experienced International Development Practitioner with enormous skills in project planning and management, monitoring and evaluation. He is the Managing Partner of Delink Services, and Board Chairman of the Centre for Parliamentary Research and Development. He served as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Ashesi University College of Ghana, where he taught Social Research Methods from 2009 to 2014. He has also worked as a key consultant for multi-donor civil society programmes including the Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative. His remarkable professional research, policy and strategic framework development capabilities are hailed in the fields of education, gender, environment, water and sanitation, poverty reduction and local economic development value areas.

Gideon’s highly sought-after expertise has contributed immensely to the work organizations such as: The John A. Kufuor Foundation, The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, The Ministry of Education, The Judicial Service of Ghana, International Cocoa Initiative, WiLDAF Ghana, STAR-Ghana / Coffey International Development UK, ITAD UK, UNESCO IICBA, UNICEF Ghana, UNFPA Ghana, ActionAid Ghana, SNV Ghana, Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and many others. Gideon read Geography and Resource Development with Political Science for his B.A (Hons) degree, and M.Phil in Geography and Resource Development, all at the University of Ghana, Legon. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Development Studies at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Cape Coast.