Ebenezer Oduro Owusu

Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu (born at Tarkwa, on 11 December 1960) is the vice chancellor of the University of Ghana, a position he officially assumed on August 1, 2016. He is the principal academic and administrative officer of the university. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu is a professor of entomology at the Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Science and prior to his appointment as vice chancellor, he was the provost of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences at the University of Ghana.

Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu started his elementary school education at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) primary school, Akim Tafo from where he proceeded to St Peters Secondary School, Nkwatia Kwahu for his Ordinary Level School Certificate. He later did his advanced level at Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS), Takoradi. He gained admission to the University of Ghana to read BSc Agriculture and graduated with a Second class Upper Division in 1987. He later served as a teaching/research assistant in the Department of Crop Science for two years. Professor Owusu was awarded the prestigious Japanese Government Scholarship (MONBUSHO) in October 1989 and left Ghana to pursue his Master of Science degree at Kochi University, Japan. He successfully completed his Masters (Agricultural Chemistry) in 1992 and was awarded another scholarship (MONBUSHO) to pursue a PhD in entomology. Professor Owusu successfully completed his PhD in 1995 with a gold medal award (for best PhD candidate), and has researched extensively into insect pests of agricultural and medical importance, as well as carrying out monitoring and evaluation assignments. Professor Owusu has an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA Project Management option).

After completing his PhD, Professor Owusu was immediately appointed assistant professor at Kochi University in April 1995, and then associate professor in September, 1995. In March 1996, Professor Owusu was appointed a research fellow at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and was posted to Niger as an entomologist. Significant among his achievements was the development of a system for the management of the millet headminer, Heliocheilus albipunctella (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) based on indigenous plant species, and the host interactions (semiochemicals and use of resistance varieties).

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