Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa is the

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of the

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and an

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. Prior to his director-general appointment, he was the

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of the International Programmes Office (IPO) at

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), commonly known as UST, Tech or Kwame Tech, is a public university located in Kumasi, Ashanti region, Ghana. The university focuses on science and technology. It is the second public uni ...

(KNUST).

Early life and education

He attended

Suhum Secondary Technical School Suhum Secondary Technical School (SUTESCO) is a co-ed secondary technical school in Suhum in the Eastern Region of Ghana founded in 1963 and also was the first secondary technical school to be built in the Eastern Region of Ghana History SUTES ...

, then went to Wesley College in

Kumasi Kumasi is a city and the capital of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It is the second largest city in the country, with a population of 443,981 as of the 2021 census. Kumasi is located in a rain forest region ...

for his professional

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teacher certificate. His first degree in

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was from Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology (KNUST). He subsequently received a

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and Graduate Diploma in

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from the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It is the oldest public university in the country. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the British colony of the Gold Coast ...

. His

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was on language and education from the

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in the UK.

References

Living people Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology alumni Ghanaian civil servants University of Ghana alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Gov-bio-stub