Chairman

Prof. Paul P. Bosu (Chief Research Scientist) was appointed Director-General (DG) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in May, 2022. He took over from Prof. Victor Kwame Agyeman, who successfully completed his term as Director-General in February, 2022. Prof. Paul Bosu was the former Deputy Director-General of the Council from January 2019 to April 2022 respectively. As DDG, he was responsible for the development and execution of the Research and Development (R&D) activities of all the thirteen (13) research Institutes of the Council; mobilizing funds for R&D activities; overseeing the transfer of the results of research in Science and Technology to relevant institutions and agencies; and coordinated the commercialization activities of corporate CSIR.

Prof. Bosu holds a PhD in Forest Entomology from the Northern Arizona University (NAU), USA, Master of Philosophy (MPhil Biological Sciences) and BSc. (Hons) (Biological Sciences) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.

He also holds a postgraduate certificate in Public Administration from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). Prof. Paul Bosu is an accomplished academic and researcher whose professional career has spanned nearly 27 years. He joined CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (CSIR-FORIG) in 1995 as an Assistant Research Officer and rose through the ranks to the position of Chief Research Scientist in 2018.

Prof. Benjamin Jabez Botwe Nyarko was born on 23rd January 1962. Prof. Nyarko graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, in 1990 with a B.Sc. (Hon.) degree in Physics. He was awarded Master of Philosophy degree in Physics in 1999 from the University of Ghana, Legon and a Ph.D degree in Physics through International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “sandwich” programme between Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada and University of Cape Coast, Cape coast, Ghana in 2007.

He taught Physics at St. Peter’s Secondary School, Kwahu-Nkwatia, from September 1991 to October 1994. Appointed Assistant Research Scientist at the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) in 1994. He was upgraded to the position of a Research Scientist in June 1999 after completion of his M.Phil degree. Nyarko gained accelerated promotion to the rank of Senior Research Scientist in April 2002. He was promoted to the rank of Principal Research Scientist in January 2007 and a Chief Research Scientist in June 2010. Nyarko was the head of the Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) Laboratory at the Ghana Research Reactor-1 (GHARR-1) Centre from 2002 to 2007.

He served as the Head of Department of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science from February to August 2007 He was appointed the Director of National Nuclear Research Institute, GAEC on September 1, 2007. He was appointed the Deputy Director General of GAEC on 1st June 2011 and later appointed the Director-General of GAEC on 1st March 2012. GAEC conferred on him the title of Associate Professor in March 2008 and a full Professor on 1st February 2012 in Applied Nuclear Physics. He is a lecturer in Nuclear Engineering, Applied Nuclear Physics and Nuclear and Radiochemistry at the Graduate School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences (SNAS), University of Ghana (UG). He is currently a Council Member of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

Ghana Academy of Arts & Sciences

National Council for Tertiary Education

Dept. of Agric. Regional Coordinating Council

Private Sector(Public Health Physician)

KNUST, Female Eminent Scientist

Ghana National Chamber of Commerce