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Eric Kwame Adae is a Ghanaian author and an assistant professor of public relations at Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Adae is a member of the Institute of Public Relations and the Chartered Institute of Marketing in Ghana and he has over 15 years of experience in the media and public relations industries.

Education
Eric Kwame Adae got his basic education at the Korle Gonno Day Care Center and the Cambridge Preparatory School, both in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. He enrolled at Ebenezer Secondary School in 1983, obtaining an Ordinary Level Certificate in 1988 in Business and Economics. He then proceeded to Accra Academy for his Advanced Level Certificate between 1988 and 1990. He started studying at the University of Ghana in 1991, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Sociology with English at the end of a three-year programme in 1994. He was admitted as an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (Ghana) in 2004. In 2009, Adae completed his MPhil in Communication Studies at the University of Ghana. In 2013, he became an accredited member of the Institute of Public Relations (Ghana). Adae was awarded his Ph.D. in Media Studies in 2020 by the University of Oregon, School of Journalism & Communication.

Career
Adae began his career in several communication specialist roles, including Channel Two Communications Limited, Vivid Marketing Systems Ghana Limited, and Evolve Ghana Limited. He was the Group Head of Corporate Communications at CDH Financial Holdings, a diversified financial services group in Ghana. He also served as an adjunct lecturer at the African University College of Communications and the School of Communication and Information Studies, University of Ghana.

He was appointed assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Drake University in August 2020, where he teaches in both undergraduate and graduate public relations programs.

He was named the "2021 Outstanding Iowa Public Relations Professional" by the Iowa Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America during its annual PRIME Awards.

In 2021, Eric Kwame Adae and Professor Donnalyn Pompper won the Doug Newsom Award for Global Ethics and Diversity for the Public Relations Division, with their research paper titled "Public Relations and Sustainability across the African Continent: Using Afro-Centric Philosophies to Remember What’s Been ‘Forgotten or Lost’" at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference.

Selected publications

 * Responsible Management in Emerging Markets - A Multisectoral Focus, Palgrave-Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2021, Hard Cover ISBN 978-3-030-76562-0, Soft Cover ISBN 978-3-030-76565-1, eBook ISBN 978-3-030-76565-1
 * CEOs on a Mission: Reimagining CEO Activism, Development, and Difference, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2023, ISBN 978-1803-822-16-7
 * Social Media and Africa's Public Sector: Perspective On Contemporary Issues, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-22641-0