Ing. Professor Nana Osei-Wusu Achaw

Vice-Chancellor, Kumasi Technical University

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professional Engineer, Researcher, University Administrator

Ing. Professor Nana Osei-Wusu Achaw is a Ghanaian chemical engineer, academic and university administrator whose career has been closely associated with the development of technical higher education at Kumasi Technical University. He joined the institution, then Kumasi Polytechnic, in 1996 as the founding lecturer of its Chemical Engineering Department, helping establish the academic foundation for a discipline central to industrial processing and engineering education. Achaw served as Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1997 to 2008 and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology from 2002 to 2008. He subsequently directed the School of Graduate Studies, Research and Innovation from 2011 to 2013. In 2020, he was inducted as the first substantive Vice-Chancellor following the institution's conversion from polytechnic to technical university. He also served as Acting Vice-Chancellor of Cape Coast Technical University from December 2018 to May 2019. He earned a BSc and an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest in Hungary in 1987 and 1989, respectively, followed by a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2005. Between 1990 and 1996, he studied and worked at the University of Akron in the United States and Queen's University in Canada as a graduate and teaching assistant.