GOVERNING COUNCIL

DR. GEORGE MAWUSI AFETSI – COUNCIL CHAIRMAN

Dr. George Mawusi Afeti is a mechanical engineer, a tertiary education consultant, and an expert in technical and vocational education training (TVET). He has more than thirty years of academic experience as a university professor, and administrator. He is also an international consultant for organizations including the World Bank, UNESCO, the African Union, and the African Development Bank.

Dr. Afeti currently serves as the Chairman of the African Union TVET Expert Group and the Vice Chair of the Consultative Advisory Group of the World Bank’s Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET).

He attended the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana for his Bachelor’s degree and the University of Paris (Pierre et Marie Curie) in France where he obtained a Docteur Ingénieur (Dr.-Ing.) degree in 1983.

Dr. Afeti is a former Secretary General of the Commonwealth Association of Technical Universities and Polytechnics in Africa and the Rector of Ho Polytechnic in Ghana. He has worked as the Chief Inspector of Schools and the foundation Executive Secretary of the National Inspectorate Board in Ghana. He also served as a member of the Ghana National Council for Tertiary Education, the National Accreditation Board (now Ghana Tertiary Education Commission – GTEC), and the Council of the Ghana Institution of Engineers. As a mechanical engineer and an educator by training, Dr. Afeti taught at universities and polytechnics in France, Nigeria, and Ghana.

Dr. George Afeti has written extensively on TVET, school performance monitoring and evaluation, and differentiation and articulation in the higher education systems of Africa.

He took up his current responsibility as the Chairman of the Evangelical Presbyterian University College in April 2023 and thus became the fifth Chairman of the University College’s Council.