ACTING EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Prof. Anthony Owusu-Ansah (PhD) is currently the Acting Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission.
Prof. Owusu-Ansah was the Head of Department and a Professor of Real Estate Finance and Economics at the Department of Land Economy, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Before joining KNUST, he served as an Associate Professor of Finance at the Business School of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in Accra.
Prof. Owusu-Ansah holds a PhD in Real Estate from the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Prior to that, he earned his MSc degree in Real Estate Management from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and a BSc degree (First Class Honours) in Land Economy from KNUST.
He is a professional member of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors and an Associate Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy. At GIMPA, he notably served as the Head of the Finance and Accounting Department (September 2019 – December 2021) and as the Coordinator of Graduate Programmes at the Business School (September 2015 – August 2019). He also contributed to several Academic Board Committees and served on the University Council’s Finance and Development sub-committee.
Prof. Owusu-Ansah’s teaching interests include Real Estate Economics, Real Estate Finance, Quantitative Research Methods, Real Estate Valuation, Principles of Real Estate, Corporate Finance, and Financial Management. He is a recognized expert in Hedonic Modelling and House Price Index Construction and has consulted widely on crop compensation valuation, real estate valuation, market analysis, and highest and best use assessments for real estate.
His research focuses on housing market analysis, behavioural finance, hedonic pricing, index construction, land management, and land information systems. He has extensively studied the Ghanaian housing markets and has over a dozen research publications in reputable international journals, including Housing Studies, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Habitat International, and Journal of Corporate Real Estate.
He is also the author of the 2018 book “Construction and Application of Property Price Indices”, published by Routledge, London. As an academic, he serves as an external examiner for institutions such as the University of Mines and Technology (Tarkwa), University of Cape Coast, University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), University of Johannesburg, Central University, Koforidua Technical University, and Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development (Wa)
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
Mr. Alex Nii Kweite Quaynor is a lawyer having qualified in 1988 from the Ghana School of Law. He is a product of Mfantsipim school, Cape Coast, University of Ghana, Legon and a Chevening Scholar (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London).
He is the former President of the British of Chevening Scholar Association of Ghana, a former director of Students Loan Trust Fund and Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) former Serious Fraud Office.
He is the former Chairman of the Greater Accra Regional Lands Commission.
His Law practice includes Land Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Insurance, Investments and General Civil Litigation.
Mr. Quaynor is currently the Chairman of the Lands Commission Board.
ACTING DEPUTY EXECUTIVE SECRETARY (OPERATIONS)
Surv. Anthony Mallen Ntiador, is currently the Acting Deputy Executive Secretary of the Lands Ghana.
Surv. Ntiador is a Fellow and Council Member of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors is the CEO of TGTS Africa, a Company with expertise building
Deploying technology systems for improvements in organizational processes with special focus on Geospatial Technology and. Enterprise Resource System.
Tony was instrumental and spearheaded the implementation of the:
* Ghana eJustice Project (Automation of the Law Court Complex),
* Birth and Death Registry data automation and automation of the Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice.
His recent work involves the building of standardization application for the Private Vehicles Testing Station (PVTS) of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) and the Multimedia Ghana’s Election Application for Television.
Surv. Ntiador is a Surveyor and an IT Consultant with a MSc degree In Land Management and Administration from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, an MBA from the University of Applied Management, Erding Germany and a BSc in Land Economy from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi – Ghana. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Applied Sciences, Berlin – Germany an in-IT Certificate from St Michael’s Information Technology (1996). He’s participated in training under the auspices of United Nation Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), GIZ, World Bank, Esti, SAP, Open Text etc.
He’s served as the ICT Chairman for Ghana Institution of Surveyors since 2022 to Date, aside from his professional work. Surv. Ntiador is the Presiding Elder of the James McKeown Worship: Centre of the Church of Pentecost, Adenta and the Chairman of the Parents Teacher Association (PTA) of Pentecost Preparatory School, He is a certified Counselor with Prepare & Enrich Facilitators Association and the Ghana National Association of Certified Counselors.
Professional Membership:
Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GhiS)
Member: Federation of international Surveyors (FIG)
Member: Africa Real Estate Society (A/RES)
Member: International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP)
Member: Ghana Geospatial Society (GGS)
Member: Institute of ICT Professional Ghana (IPGH)
Member: Prepare and Enrich Counselling Facilitators (PEFA)
Member: Ghana National Association of Certified Counselors (GNACC)
DEPUTY EXECUTIVE SECRETARY (CORPORATE SERVICES)
Holds a BSc in Geodetic Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, has a Post Graduate Diploma in Integrated Map and Geo-information Production from the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) – Enschede, The Netherlands. Read More