Josephine Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Ampofo, a Ghanaian-German woman, studied at Aburi Girls' Secondary School and earned a master's degree in development planning and management from Kwame Nkrumah University. She holds a PhD in sociology and a postgraduate diploma in spatial planning from the Technical University of Dortmund. In 1989, Ampofo began instructing at the University of Ghana (UG).Ampofo was a Junior Fulbright Scholar in 1994 and 1995.

She became the first Head of the University of Georgia's (UG) Center for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) in 2005, a position she held until 2009.

She joined Ghana Studies as an editor around 2008 and worked there till 2013. She has also served as the journal's editor for contemporary African studies.

She worked in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town while a Mellon Fellow there in 2014.She worked at Concordia University Irvine in 2015 as a Senior Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence.

Ampofo, president of the African Studies Association of Africa, presided over the 2019 East Africa conference. She is a founding member of various organizations, including the Network for Women's Rights in Ghana, the Association of Sociologists for Women and Society, and the Ghana Domestic Violence Coalition.