Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi is the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Afrobarometer, a pioneering pan-African survey research network that measures public attitudes on democracy, governance, and development across the continent.
He is also the founder and former Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), a leading independent policy research and advocacy organization.
A Ghanaian political scientist, Professor Gyimah-Boadi is a former professor at the University of Ghana and has held teaching and fellowship positions at the American University’s School of International Service, Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the National Endowment for Democracy.
He has published extensively on democratic governance, civil society, and political reform in Africa, including Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Democratic Reform in Africa: Quality of Progress (Lynne Rienner, 2004). His contributions have earned him numerous honors, including the 2017 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Peace and Social Justice and recognition among New African magazine’s “100 Most Influential Africans” in 2021.