Appiah Kusi Adomako

Appiah Kusi Adomako is an economist, barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He currently leads the CUTS International West Africa Centre in located in Accra as the West Africa Regional Director delivering results on trade and development, competition policy and law, private sector development, investment, intellectual property, economic policy and capacity building for state and non-state actors on trade and development, investment and economic governance. I have over 20 years of experience in leading public policy formulation, implementation, consulting, antitrust economics and policy advocacy, market research, private sector development, business strategy, entreprenurship development, multilateral and bilateral trade relations in international trading systems including WTO, UNCTAD, and ECOWAS. I have several years of consulting for the World Economic Forum (WEF), World Bank Group, ECOWAS Commission, DFID, USAID, DANIDA, GIZ, Facebook, European Union, Ministry of Trade and Industry, UN Food and Agricultural Organization. I have undertaken diverse studies and consultancies in the areas of competition and market research, trade and investment facilitation (World Bank and World Economic Forum respectively), TVET education, AfCFTA readiness assessment, non-tariffs and technical barriers to trade, SPS, customs and transit procedure, competition policy and law, enabling business environment, corporate governance, market research, e-commerce, digital economy, regional integration, budget and expenditure tracking, public finance and fiscal policies, and consumer voice in the West Africa integration, , non-tariffs and reduction of technical barriers to trade, and consumer voice in the West Africa integration projects. I combine the decades of experience in advising governments, international development agencies, private sector, non-profits and lecturing at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Graduate School where I taught Public Policy, and Public Systems Management and supervised graduate students’ thesis till December 2021. I have Masters degree in Public Policy and Management, and Executive Education Certificate in Strategic Leadership from the Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard Business School respectively in the United States as well as an MA Economics for Competition Law with the King’s College London as well as the LLB Law from the University of London. Appiah is also an LLM candidate with George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.