Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi

Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi is a Ghanaian political scientist and the co-founder of the Afrobarometer, a pan-African research project that surveys public attitude on political, social and economic reforms across African countries. He was the CEO of Afrobarometer from 2008 to 2021. He is the chair of its board of directors.

Education Gyimah-Boadi holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Ghana and a Master of Arts and Ph.D in political science from the University of California, Davis.

Career

Gyimah-Boadi's research focusses on democratic politics in Africa, specifically political reforms and liberalism in Ghana.

Honours and awards In 2017, Gyimah-Boadi received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Peace and Social Justice, given by the US embassy to Ghana for advancing democracy, good governance, and economic opportunity.

In 2018, he was named the 2018 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association of USA "for his outstanding scholarship and service to the Africanist community".

In 2019, he became an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Publications

"Associational Life, Civil Society, and Democratization in Ghana", chapter in Civil Society and the State in Africa, eds. John W. Harbeson, Donald Rothchild and Naomi Chazan (1994), Lynne Rienner Publishers, Gyimah-Boadi, E., (1996). "Civil Society in Africa". Journal of Democracy, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 118–132 editor, Democratic Reform in Africa: The Quality of Progress (2004), Lynne Rienner Publishers, Bratton, M., Mattes, R. and Gyimah-Boadi, E., (2005) Public Opinion, Democracy and Market Reform in Africa, Cambridge University Press, Gyimah-Boadi, E., and Asunka, J. (2021) "The Future Africans Want: When Optimism Is Power". European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)