Bill Buenar Puplampu is a

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academic, occupational psychologist and the current Vice Chancellor of the Central University.

Early life and education

Puplampu completed his secondary school education at the

Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School (PRESEC, Legon) is a secondary boarding school for boys. It is located in Legon, Accra, Ghana. It was founded in 1938, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Presbyterian Church of the Gold C ...

where he obtained his

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. He proceeded to the

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where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Psychology in 1985. He then went on to the Polytechnic of East London (now

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) in the

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where he completed the Master's degree in Occupational psychology in 1990. He completed a Ph. D. at the University of East London in Organizational Behaviour and International Human Resource Management in 1994. He studied at the Executive Institute of

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in 1998. He also studied Higher Education Management at the DAAD/DIES

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in 2012.

Career

Puplampu started off with a part-time teaching job at the University of East London. He later had a full-time lecturer position at the

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also in

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. He returned to Ghana to work at the

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where he became the head of the Department of Organisation and Human Resource Management and later Associate Professor. He has served as an external examiner at the Makarere University in

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and in

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and North West University. He has been a visiting scholar at the

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. He was the Chair of the Executive MBA Programme Committee and Editor of the Business School’s Academic Journal. In 2016, he delivered his inaugural lecture at the University of Ghana on “Towards an Organisational Revolution in Africa – Calibrated Culture, Engaged Leadership and Structured Health – Musings of an Organizational Psychologist”. In 2010, he was appointed Dean of the Central Business School. He went on to become the Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) in 2015. In November 2017, he became the Vice Chancellor of the Central University.

Other positions held

He is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the

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and a member of the Hamburg Global University Leaders' Council. He was elected to fellowship of the

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in 2018. Puplampu was an Independent Director on the Board of Merchant Bank, Ghana.

Research

Puplampu's research interests have focused on employee motivation, organisational culture and corporate leadership. He was joint lead of the "six year Research Culture project looking into research culture in universities in six African countries" with Stella Nkomo.

Family

Puplampu is married to Christiana Okang. His son Vivaldo also graduated in Psychology at the University of East London while his daughter Xavia studied International Tourism Management there. Another daughter of his, Dionne also studied Psychology. Tragically, Vivaldo succumbed to

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Publications

He has published a number of articles including: # # He is also co-editor of the following books: # # #

References

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