Professor Prince Boakye Frimpong, a Research Fellow at the Brew-Hammond Energy Centre and a member of the Financial Modelling Research Group at the Centre, has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

He is a Senior Lecturer in the department and recently served as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Professor Frimpong holds a PhD in Economics from the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, two MSc degrees in Economic Development and Growth from the University of Warwick, UK, and Lund University, Sweden, as well as an MA and BA from KNUST.

His research expertise spans Applied Econometrics and Applied Microeconomics, with focus areas including energy, health, labour, education, resource, and gender economics. He has led and contributed to several high-impact research and consultancy projects, including a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation–funded study on digital tool adoption among mobile money agents.

The Brew-Hammond Energy Centre congratulates Professor Prince Boakye Frimpong on this well-deserved promotion and celebrates his contributions to research, teaching, and policy engagement.