Professor Matthew Glover Addo

Vice-Chancellor, Catholic University of Ghana

Academic, Microbiologist, Molecular Biologist, University Administrator

Professor Matthew Glover Addo is a Ghanaian microbiologist and molecular biologist whose career combines biological sciences research, university teaching, academic administration and institutional leadership. Before becoming Vice-Chancellor of the Catholic University of Ghana in September 2025, he spent more than two decades at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), progressing through academic and management roles that included Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Vice-Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, and Director of the Institute of Distance Learning. His academic training includes a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from KNUST, postgraduate study in biotechnology at the University of Bergen in Norway, and doctoral research undertaken jointly through Université Paris-Sud XI in France and KNUST. His research has addressed molecular biology, mitochondrial genome stability, microbiology, microbial profiling and food safety. His work on mitochondrial genome stability included research using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism.