Anis Haffar

Anis Haffar is a Ghanaian educationist, teacher, columnist and author. He is the founder of the GATE institute in Ghana, and is a council member of the Ghana Education Service. Also a journalist, he writes a weekly column for the Daily Graphic newspaper entitled "Education Matters with Anis Haffar", and the column "Leaders – Human Capital", in Business World (Ghana). Haffar was listed as one of the 100 most influential Africans of 2016 in Education by New African magazine.

Background Haffar attended Mfantsipim School, Cape Coast, and earned a business degree from California State University, Los Angeles,

In Ghana in 1996 he set up the GATE Institute in order to update administrators and teachers in current trends in education, and has designed workshops for teachers and schools across the country.

As a senior lecturer, Haffar teaches creative and critical thinking at Accra College of Medicine; additionally, he chairs the Board of Governors of Tema International School, is a board member of AGA School, Obuasi, Academic City College, Accra, and Aspire School, Koforidua, is a member of council of the Ghana Education Service, and was a member of the Expert Commission on National Vision and Plan for Tertiary Education in Ghana.

His writing encompasses weekly newspaper columns – "Education Matters with Anis Haffar" in The Daily Graphic and "Leaders – Human Capital", in Business World (Ghana) – as well as other essays on cultural and topical issues, and his published books include Strategies for Effective Teaching and Learning (2019).

Books Leadership: Reflections on Some Movers, Shakers and Thinkers, GATE Institute Press, 2010. Mfantsipim: The Makers of a Great School, GATE Institute Press, 2013. Strategies for Effective Teaching and Learning, 2019