Henry Kwasi Prempeh
Legal scholar and governance expert Henry Kwasi Prempeh is executive director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), where he has served as a board member since the center’s founding and was its first director of legal policy and governance and co-editor of its quarterly Democracy Watch from 2001 to 2003. Kwasi Prempeh taught at Seton Hall University School of Law (New Jersey, USA) from 2003 to 2015, securing tenure as a full professor in 2008. He was also a visiting professor at GIMPA Law School from 2010 to 2011 and has co-taught the “Constitution-Building in Africa” course at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, since 2014. In 2013-2014, he served as constitutional adviser to the UN Special Envoy to Yemen. A 2011 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, Kwasi Prempeh is a renowned expert on democratization, governance, and constitutionalism in Ghana and Africa and has published widely in the field, including articl...