Contact	About IMANI

Mr. Franklin Cudjoe/Executive Director

Franklin Cudjoe, aged 32 is Executive Director of IMANI Center for Policy & Education. Founded in 2004, IMANI is  a nonprofit, non-government organization dedicated to fostering public awareness of important policy issues concerning business, government and civil society.

Mr. Cudjoe is also editor of AfricanLiberty.org, a joint Cato Institute/IMANI project to publish and syndicate open-society type articles throughout Africa. AfricanLiberty.org publishes books, studies and organizes seminars.

Mr. Cudjoe received a B.S.c from Kwame Nkrumah University in Land Economics, certificates in Austrian Economics from the Institute for Economic Studies in Paris, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Germany and a Certificate in Leadership and Think-Tank Management from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan.

In   2007, Mr. Cudjoe was awarded a Humane Studies Fellowship from George Mason University to pursue a Doctorate degree focusing on the impact of Corporate social investment in West Africa and donor driven projects.   In January 2008, Mr. Cudjoe was again awarded a handsome Earhart Foundation Fellowship to pursue his PhD at Buckingham University in the U.K. and holds fellowships from a wide range of organizations including the Mont Pelerin Society, George Mason University, New School of Athens, Instituto Bruno Leoni, Evian Group at IMD, Independent Institute, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), International Policy Network, and ATLAS Economic Research Foundation. Mr Cudjoe is part of the Brains Trust of the Evian Group at IMD, the best Business School outside of the U.S.

He has won two John Templeton Foundation awards for advancing the institutional foundations of the free and democratic society in 2006. Mr Cudjoe was honoured in 2005 by Bill Gates Snr on his advocacy on health economics in Africa.

He has been cited in the U.K. House of Commons debate on aid and development in Africa and by South Africa's Supreme Court Judge on patents and Intellectual property in June 2005 April 2006.

He has shared panel with respected academics such as Deepak Lal and former Prime Ministers of Malaysia and Estonia. He debated President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania on colonialism and globalization in November 2005.

Cudjoe is a frequent commentator in print and broadcast media about Africa development issues, including appearances on BBC, CBC, Swiss and Swedish National TV, Austrian National Radio and varied local Ghanaian media, and has been published or quoted severally in London's Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal (all three versions), Bangkok Post, Washington Times, El Mercurio (Chile), La Republica (Costa Rica),the Ottawa Citizen, the San Francisco Chronicle, Netzeitung Voice Of Germany the Ghanaian Daily Graphic, Accra Daily Mail, Ghana Web, My Joy online, , and many others. He speaks to policy makers, students groups in Ghana and abroad.

He advises corporate bodies on social investment projects; speak to policy makers and students groups in Ghana and abroad. His work has impacted significant policies on corporate taxation, health regulation, water privatisation and effective governance in Ghana and Africa.

He is co-author of "The Water Revolution: Practical Solutions to Water Scarcity" (with forewords by Hernando de Soto and Sir Ian Byatt) and author of a forth coming publication, "Hobbled Trade: Trade Barriers within Africa".

 

franklin@imanighana.com