Professor Kofi Asare Opoku will take office formally on Monday July 7, 2008 as Vice President (Institutional Advancement) of AUCC. He will assist the President to advance the vision of AUCC and supervise the institutionalization of the Centre for African Studies as a foundation discipline for AUCC.

Professor Asare Opoku was educated at the University of Ghana, Legon, University of Bonn in Germany and Yale University in the USA. He was Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana in the early ‘80s and since 1989 has been Visiting Professor in a number of U.S. Universities including La Fayette College in Pennsylvania and North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

He joins AUCC with a wealth of experience to advance the progress of this great institution.