PROF. ANTHONY OWUSU-ANSAH,  ACTING EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.

Prof. Anthony Owusu-Ansah (PhD) is 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)