Senior Directing Staff
Dr Ebenezer Kwakye Agyemang is a retired commissioned senior officer of the Ghana Army. He has over two and half decades of experience in security and defence strategy, corporate risk leadership, and emergency and resilience management. He holds an Expert certificate in Counter-Insurgency and Low-Intensity Operations from the Ghana Armed Forces Jungle Warfare School. He is a parachutist. While in the military, he held various appointments including Platoon Commander, Company Commander, and Staff Officer for Intelligence, Operations, and Training at the Headquarters, Northern Command, now HQ Central Command). He also participated in five UN peacekeeping missions in UNIFIL, in the Middle East, UNAMSIL and UNMIL in West Africa and MONUC in East Africa. The appointments held with UN peacekeeping included Military Observer, Company Commander and Assistant Operations Officer, Deputy Commanding Officer and Chief Operations Officer, Company Commander and twice as Platoon Commander. He was also a Directing Staff at the Ghana Army Combat Training School, - the highest tactical training institution in the Ghana Army for over half a decade. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Honours), degree from the University of Ghana in Geography and Resource Development with Political Science. He also holds a double Master’s degree in Business Administration and Applied Business Research from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and SBS Swiss Business School respectively. He holds a post graduate Certificate in Public Administration from GIMPA and Contemporary Management from Nobel International Business School, all in Ghana. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College (Senior Division). He is an alumnus of Ghana Military Academy, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Florida State University, Cranfield University, Red-R-UK, Academy for Conflict Transformation-Germany, and Helsinki Espana (Human Dimension) – Spain. Eben obtained his Doctor of Business Administration from SBS Swiss Business School, Zurich Switzerland, where his cross-discipline research into the value chain in the extractive industry was adjudged ‘Maxime Practica Propositum’. He also awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by Institut Universitaire La Grace (Ecole Benin). Apart from numerous presentations, he has authored many books including Decoding 2019 Novel Coronavirus published by Blue Rose in India, Leadership and Discipline; From Battlespace to Boardroom, published by Black Mask in Ghana and Trans-National Organised Crime and Terrorism- An Emerging Security Challenge in West Africa, published by EPP Services in Ghana. He has worked in the security and risk management teams of five multinational organizations. As a service to humanity, Eben established some not-for-profit institutions where he was the Chief Education Officer of Retina Training Group, Partner, Mining Intelligence and Investigations Group, Team Lead, Centre for Risk and Resilience Management and Non-Executive President of Crossbridge Leadership Institute. He is a network member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime and a Fellow, of the Chartered Institute of Leadership and Governance - USA. He was the 2nd Runner Up, of the Institute’s Ghana Chapter Leadership award for the year 2022. Eben is married with children and enjoys giving back to humanity through leadership training and empowerment.