Information

Membership Number: FCA1135

Membership Type: Fellow; Member of the Academic Council

Division: Social Sciences

Corresponding Email: ***su@isser.edu.gh; ***su@ug.edu.gh; ****su@yahoo.com

Homepage(s): https://www.ifsghana.org/augustin-kwasi-fosu/ 

https://isser.ug.edu.gh/people/prof-augustin-k-fosu

Present and Previous Positions

Professor, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Distinguished Visiting Professor, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Extraordinary Professor, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Research Associate, Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 

Deputy Director, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (2006-2013) 

Senior Policy Advisor/Chief Economist; Director, Economic and Social Policy Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (2004-2006)

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

PhD in Economics, Northwestern University (USA)

Development Economy, International Development, African Economy, Political Economy, Global Economy and Development, International Trade

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Distinguished Visiting Professor, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 2021-present.

Extraordinary Professor, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2014-present.

Visiting Professor of Economics, School of Business, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, 2014-2017.

Research Associate, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, UK, 2011-present.

Research Associate, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, UK, 2009-2016.

Research Fellow, Rural Development Research Consortium, University of California-Berkeley, USA, 2003-present.

Non-Residential Fellow (NRF), OECD Development Center, Global Development Outlook (GDO) 2010, “Shifting Wealth: Implications for Development,” 2009-2010.

Ranked among “top 1000 economists” globally based on journal articles:  http://ideas.repec.org/coupe.html

Ranked among “top authors” based on publications, citations, downloads, etc.: top 5 percent globally, top 1 percent in Africa, first in Ghana - accessed, 31 December 2023:

Augustin Fosu | IDEAS/RePEc; http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.africa.html#authors; https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.ghana.html#authors

Listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists, based on citations of publications:

Top SCINET - Top 2% Scientists.

Elsevier Atlas Award, by Elsevier; event held by the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), University of Oxford UK, March 2018: for article, “Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence,” Research in Economics, 2017, 71(2): 306–336: Elsevier Atlas Award

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of African Trade (Afreximbank; Elsevier/Atlantis/Elsevier D.C.), 2013-present.

Managing Editor, Journal of African Economies (U of Oxford; Oxford U Press), 2002-present.

Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member (recent or current - partial list):

·         African Development Review (African Dev. Bank; Blackwell), 2000-present

·         Canadian Journal of Development Studies (Canadian Assoc. for the Study of International Development [CASID]; Routledge), 2015-present

·         European Journal of Development Research (European Assoc. of Development Research and Training Institutes [EADI]; Palgrave-MacMillan), 2015-present

·         Feminist Economics (Rice University, USA; Routledge), 2006-2010

·         Journal of Development Studies (U of Manchester, UK; Routledge), 2002-2018

·         Oxford Development Studies (U of Oxford, UK; Routledge), 2004-2019

·         World Bank Economic Review (World Bank, USA; Oxford U Press), 2001- 2016

·         World Development (U of Michigan, USA; Elsevier Sciences), 2000-2015

Appointed by the UN Secretary-General (in personal capacity) to serve on the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (UN-CEPA), effective 1 August 2021.

Invitee to submit nominees, The Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2019 - present

Member, (Ghana) President’s Fiscal Responsibility Advisory Council (honorary and non-partisan), 2019-present

Member, Eminent Panel, Ghana Priorities, Copenhagen Consensus Center, 2019-present (Eminent Panel | Copenhagen Consensus).

Member, Steering Committee, International Economic Association, Bali conference, 2019-2020

Lead Author, International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP), 2015-2018

Member, Governing Council, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Ghana, 2014-present

Member, Scientific Advisory Board, African Growth and Development Policy (AGRODEP) Modeling Consortium, IFPRI, member, 2010-2018

Member, Master Card Middle East and Africa Knowledge Panel, 2014-2015

Member, Steering Committee, Global Development Network (GDN) Accra conference, 2014

Member, (Ghana) President’s Economic Advisory Council (honorary and non-partisan), 2012

Member, Steering Committee, World Bank’s Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), Paris, 2011

Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), by Nobel Laureate Economist Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University, USA:

·   Poverty Taskforce Co-chair (with Sudhir Anand, U of Oxford), 2001-2009

·   Africa Taskforce (member), 2005-present

Georgetown Leadership Seminar (GLS) Fellow, Georgetown University, 1999

President, African Finance and Economics Assn., USA,1998 and 1999

President, National Economic Assn., USA, 1997

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=a2NCwrEAAAAJ&hl=en

Fosu_CV_Abridged_Jan_2025_CLEAN.doc

Other Information

Letter of Acceptance_International CORE Academy_Nov-2025.pdf