Prof. Emmanuel Acheampong is a Professor of Natural Resource Governance in the Department of Silviculture and Forest Management, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He holds a PhD in Human Geography (researching into forest-based livelihoods), an MSc in Environmental Policy and Management, both from the University of Hull, United Kingdom, and a BSc in Agriculture from KNUST.
His teaching and research interests include natural resource and environmental governance; environmental and natural resource policy and politics; rural livelihoods, with emphasis on forest-based livelihoods; and the relationship between communities and their natural resources. Prof. Acheampong has done extensive research into forest governance systems, timber production networks and forest justice issues in Ghana. He has also done extensive research on illegal logging, particularly chainsaw milling in Ghana, the charcoal commodity chain in Ghana, as well as the long-term impacts of the establishment of biofuel feedstock plantations, especially Jatropha curcas, on local communities.