E. Y. Danquah

Eric Yirenkyi Danquah is a Professor of Plant Genetics at the Department of Crop Science of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana. He is a recipient of the University of Ghana Distinguished Award for Meritorious Service, 2013, a member of the IAEA’s Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Applications, the 2018 Laureate, Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agriculture and Life Sciences (GCHERA) World Agriculture Prize, the 2022 Africa Food Prize Laureate and the President of the African Plant Breeders Association. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia and the University of Murdoch and a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Global Development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University. He was a Visiting Scientist at the BBSRC-Long Ashton Research Institute, UK from 2000 to 2001. Currently, he serves as the Director of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement, established in the University in 2007 as a consequence of his shared vision and leadership to train a new generation of plant breeders to develop improved varieties of the staple crops of West and Central Africa. He served as the Director of the Biotechnology Centre, University of Ghana from 2014 - 2019. He has an MPhil degree in Plant Breeding and a PhD in Genetics from Cambridge University, UK.