I am a Chevening Scholar and Mandela Washington Fellow with over a decade of experience at the intersection of climate governance, carbon finance, and community-centred development

Before this, I spent over two years with Bridge Carbon (formerly C-Quest Capital) in progressively senior roles — Country Manager, Ghana; West Africa Manager; and Carbon Quality & Integrity Manager across a Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia portfolio. As Country Manager I established and led in-country operations for a USD 25 million clean cookstove initiative under an MoU with Ghana’s Ministry of Energy, directing deployment of over 15,900 stoves across 250 communities, building a 35-person operation, and securing the regulatory relationships that enabled Ghana’s first Article 6.2 ITMO engagements with Singapore, Sweden, and Switzerland.

I’m a PhD candidate in Development Studies at ISSER, University of Ghana (2023–2027, expected), researching governance mechanisms and equitable benefit-sharing in carbon offset projects — asking how carbon finance can be structured so it genuinely benefits the communities it’s meant to serve, not just the intermediaries. I hold an MA in Governance, Development, and Public Policy from the University of Sussex‘s Institute of Development Studies as a Chevening Scholar, and an MA in Development Studies from ISSER. I’m also a Mandela Washington Fellow (UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy) and a PMP-certified project manager (Project Management Institute, certified July 2026).

Beyond consulting and research, I serve as Non-Executive Director of YOTA (Youth Opportunity and Transformation in Africa), advising leadership on youth employment and policy advocacy across the continent, and I chair the Development Planning Committee of the Avatime Vane Citizens Association, leading the community-driven Avatime Vane Development Plan 2026–2031 covering education, health, agriculture, infrastructure, and local governance.

Alongside this work, I founded School Farms, a nonprofit bringing climate-smart agriculture into Ghanaian schools, reaching 20,000+ students across 20+ schools, and Africa Carbon Watch, a monitoring initiative safeguarding the integrity of Africa’s carbon markets. I also founded Visit Avatime, an ecotourism initiative in Ghana’s Avatime highlands.

I’m passionate about building institutions and initiatives that hold climate finance accountable to the people it’s supposed to serve — blending field experience with research rigor to push for a carbon market that works for the communities inside it, not just around them.