Date:
Wednesday, 16th July 2025 | 9:00 - 9:15 AM
Date:
Thursday, 17th July 2025 | 11:00 – 11:45 AM
Topic:
Financial and Risk Management Tools for Smallholder Farmers: Securing Land Tenure
Presenter:
Prof. Michael Carter, University of California, Davis
Prof. Peter Quartey is the Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, and a former Head of the Department of Economics and Director of the Economic Management Programme, both of the University of Ghana. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), Ghana. He is also the vice board chairman of the Hunger Project Ghana, and a member of the African Economic Research Consortium and the Global Development Network and a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His research interests include Financial and Monetary Sector, Private Sector Development including SMEs, Development Finance, Migrations and Remittances and Poverty Analysis. He has published extensively in these areas with over 6500 Google Scholar citations, and consulted for both local and international institutions including the World Bank, African Development Bank, OECD, USAID, Overseas Development Institute, DFID and many more.
He holds a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Manchester (UK), an MSc in Quantitative Development Economics (University of Warwick, UK), MPhil. Economics (Ghana) and BA Economics (Ghana).