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=Franklin Cudjoe=

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Discovery.org: Franklin Cudjoe Franklin Cudjoe is head of the Accra, Ghana-based think tank Imani: The Centre for Humane Education. Imani’s primary objective is to educate and create a core of young scholars that will promote market-oriented policies throughout Africa in order to create private solutions to public issues. He was formerly a programme officer and research assistant at the Institute of Economic Affairs in Ghana. A Land Economist by training, Franklin works closely with partner think tanks across the world to promote public policy ideas and entrepreneurship in West Africa and abroad. In addition to working with student organizations in Ghana such as Students in Free Enterprise, Franklin also continues to research and comment on local environmental, health, technology, and land/water use issues in Ghana. He is also involved in several ventures to increase access to knowledge and information through the establishment of technology academies and a pilot publishing venture. Through these efforts, Imani hopes to make books that have had a global impact more available and to include within them West African perspectives. Franklin is a frequent commentator in print and broadcast media about African development issues. Recently, he addressed the largest gathering of Ghanaian students ever at the historic University of Cape Coast about “What Every Student Should Know About Economics and Prosperity.” He has appeared on the BBC, Canadian, Swiss, Swedish, and Austrian national television and radio. In addition to a range of local Ghanaian and African media, he has been published or quoted in the Daily Telegraph (UK), The Financial Times, Delhi Telegraph, Bangkok Post, Kuwaiti Times, El Mercurio (Chile), La Republica (Costa Rica), San Francisco Chronicle, Netzeitung Voice Of Germany, and others.

Franklin Cudjoe Adjunct Fellow Franklin Cudjoe is an Adjunct Fellow at the Independent Institute and Executive Director of Imani: The Center for Humane Education, a think-tank located in Accra, Ghana. He received his B.Sc. in economics from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and he works with Ghanaian Universities, Health and Economic Finance Ministries, United Kingdom’s Parliament on Global Poverty Challenge, U.K. Department for International Development, Evian Group and World Trade Organization. He has also served as a Research Fellow at the International Policy Network and Institute for Economic Studies (Paris), Country Representative for Garfield Technology Academy, Program Officer at the Institute for Economic Affairs-Ghana, Hayek Fund Scholar at the Institute for Humane Studies, and Project Coordinator for the Ghanaian-Canadian University Students Exchange Program. Mr. Cudjoe is a frequent commentator in print and broadcast media about Africa development issues, including appearances on BBC, CBC, Swiss and Swedish National TV, Austrian National Radio and varied local Ghanaian media, and he has been published or quoted in the Asian Times, Ghanaian Daily Graphic, Accra Daily Mail, Ghanaian Chronicle, My Joy, London Daily Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, African Executive, South African Star, South Africa’s Business Day, Bangkok Post, Washington Times, El Mercurio (Chile), La Republica (Costa Rica), Ottawa Citizen, San Francisco Chronicle, and Netzeitung Voice of Germany. He is author of Fighting the Diseases of Poverty, The Reality of Water Provision in Urban Africa, The Water Revolution: Practical Solutions to Water Scarcity, Ghana: An African Country’s Odyssey Through 50 years of Nationhood, and Hobbled Trade: Trade Barriers within Africa. Commentary Globalization Rocks, but African Leaders Fail to Understand It: Response to Tanzanian President Mkapa	 December 12, 2005 Globalization Rocks, but African Leaders Fail to Understand It	 November 7, 2005.

Franklin Cudjoe is the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the IMANI Center for Policy and Education, which is dedicated to the promotion of the institutions of a free society throughout Africa. IMANI has been consistently ranked among the top 10 think tanks in Africa and among the top 100 worldwide. Cudjoe is also General Editor of AfricanLiberty.org. He has consulted the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on how to make effective use of British aid in Africa, and in 2010 led the World Bank's Africa region's task force. He has won two John Templeton Foundation awards and is the only named think tank leader in the Africa Report's 2012 “Top 50 Africans”. Cudjoe was named a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Network in 2012. He is an Earhart Doctoral Fellow at Buckingham University in the United Kingdom, an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation's Think Tank MBA programme and the Montreal Economic Institute's Think Tank Training programme.