Kwesi Yankah

He has held the positions of president of the Central University and provost of the University of Ghana. He was admitted as a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and is the author of numerous books. He presently serves as the state minister of Ghana responsible for higher education.

Yankah has served as a Senior External Advisor for the Center for Local Strategies Research at the University of Washington and a member of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center's Policy Working Group at Boston University.He was chosen as a Fellow of Accra's Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. Beginning in 2003, he held the position of Honorary Secretary of the academy for three years.

Kwesi Yankah received the Esther Kinsley Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation at Indiana University. Yankah, a lecturer at the University of Ghana, held various roles and served as vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. He succeeded Professor Victor Gadzekpo as president in 2011.

Yankah received recognition in July 2016 during the 2016 Africa Summit for his support of education in Ghana and the growth of the continent.

In March 2017, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo nominated Yankah as a Minister of State in charge of tertiary education. He emphasized his New Patriotic Party background and pledged to overhaul public colleges' curricula, ensuring they focused on knowledge exchange rather than revenue-generating activities. He was sworn in after receiving approval from the Ghanaian Parliament.

Yankah has three kids and is married. He is Kojo Yankah's brother, a former minister and member of parliament for Jerry John Rawlings' National Democratic Congress.In Ghana, Kwesi Yankah belongs to the Catholic Church.