Professor Samuel Kwasi Dartey-Baah

Vice-Chancellor, Central University

Professor of Management, Leadership Researcher, Academic Administrator, Engineer

Professor Samuel Kwasi Dartey-Baah is a Ghanaian academic and management scholar whose work spans organisational leadership, human resource management, institutional advancement, engineering, and higher education administration. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and a Master of Science degree in Engineering from Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. Before joining the University of Ghana in 2010, he worked in the United Kingdom with consulting firms including JMP Consulting and Colin Buchanan & Partners, where he participated in multidisciplinary projects and held a partnership role. At the University of Ghana, Dartey-Baah served as Head of the Department of Organisation and Human Resource Management at the University of Ghana Business School for two terms and held the position of Director of Institutional Advancement. His academic work focuses on leadership, organisational behaviour, human resource management, and organisational development. He has authored more than 70 publications and is associated with the development of Transfor-sactional Leadership Theory, a framework integrating elements of transformational and transactional leadership to examine leadership effectiveness in complex organisational settings.