Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, Ed.D., is Executive Chair of Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa, and the Director of School and Community Science and Technology Studies (SACOST) at the University of Education, Winneba, (UEW) Ghana. He was for nine years the Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba. He has taught and researched in science education from kindergarten to the university level. He was the chair of the committee that produced a blueprint for an open university for Ghana. He is the chief architect of Ghana’s current educational reform, which introduced ECD into the formal curriculum.

In 1996, he started a PhD program at the University of Cape Coast, which became the yardstick for similar programs in other areas. Prof. Anamuah-Mensah established the Centre for School and Community Science and Technology Studies in 2000 and the Department of Early Childhood Care and Development in 2005 at UEW.