Emmanuel Kumi is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana and a Visiting
Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath. He is an international development
specialist with over a decade’s academic and professional experience in the fields of politics of development and
political economy analysis, philanthropy and volunteerism, civil society advocacy and activism and NGO politics
and management. Emmanuel has extensive research and teaching experience in mixed-methods research and
has undertaken a number of research projects and consultancy services for academic institutions, philanthropic
foundations and NGOs in Africa, Europe and North Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in International Development from
the University of Bath, an MSc in Agriculture and Development, a Master’s in Development and Rights, and a
Bachelor’s in Geography and Rural Development.