E. Kofi Abotsi

Professor Ernest Kofi Abotsi is the Dean of the UPSA Law School and an Associate Professor of law. Prior to his appointment, he was the immediate past Dean of the GIMPA Law School-a position he held for six (6) years. Dean Abotsi is also a practicing lawyer of over twenty years standing at the Ghanaian Bar, a public intellectual, and also the chairman of the Ghana Forum of the Africa Bar Association.

Dean Abotsi holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree and Qualifying Certificate of Law from the University of Ghana and the Ghana School of Law respectively, as well as a Master of Laws Degree from the Harvard Law School, and a Doctorate in Law from the University of Milan, Italy.

He is widely consulted by the government of Ghana, leading agencies and constitutional bodies in Ghana, the private sector as well as key international and intergovernmental bodies, including the IMF. In addition, Dean Abotsi has been a visiting scholar and guest lecturer in leading European and American universities including Oxford University, Fordham Law School, Indiana Law School and the University of Milan, Biccoca, Italy.

In addition to the above, Dean Abotsi has served on a number of boards and advisory councils and played pivotal roles in shaping the policy directions of corporate entities in Ghana including currently being the chairman of the advisory board of the Chief Executives Network of Ghana, (a body comprising the CEOs of some of the largest and notable corporations in Ghana).

He has written extensively in leading peer review journals of law in the world in various fields of law including corporate governance..

He is an honorary fellow of the Institute of Directors, a member of the Ghana Bar Association and Rotary International.