Professor Emmanuel Kanchebe Derbile

Vice-Chancellor, University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (UBIDS)

Academic, Development Planner and University Administrator

Professor Emmanuel Kanchebe Derbile is a Ghanaian academic and development planning scholar who became Vice-Chancellor of the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, now the University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, in May 2024. Before his substantive appointment, he served as Acting Vice-Chancellor from January 2024. His academic career at the university level began in 1999, and he is a Professor of Development Planning. Derbile holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Bonn in Germany, awarded in 2010, and an MSc in Development Planning and Management obtained through a programme involving the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and the University of Dortmund. He also holds a BA in Integrated Development Studies from the University for Development Studies and a certificate in the management of development organisations from St. Francis Xavier University, now associated with the University of British Columbia.