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Our Star has lived a glorious life with, and in the law. Our Star has devoted his life to legal and non-legal academia, public service and legal practice. Our Star is a Notary Public, a Criminologist, a world-class Governance and Leadership expert, and a Management Consultant of international distinction and repute. Our Star has over 20 years of experience in legal practice and training and stands as a member of the legal team of the Petitioners in the historic and ground breaking presidential election petition.

Our Star is credited with carrying the implementation of the vision and fruitful rollout of a major cornerstone of Ghana's modern statehood development: The Ghanacard. Our Star was thus the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA) of Ghana from February 2017 to November 2024. During his tenure, he successfully led the transformation of NIA into a modern, vibrant institution spearheading Ghana’s digitalisation agenda through a dependable ultra-modern National Identification System (NIS) and a robust identity Verification System Platform (VSP) for inclusive social, economic and political development. Through his leadership and in his tenure at NIA, over 18 million Ghanaians at home and abroad have been registered on the National Identity Register (NIS).

Our Star is an Associate Professor of Governance and Leadership at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). In 2011, he became the Founding Director of the William Ofori-Atta Institute of Integrity at Central University, and subsequently served as the Founding Dean of the Central University Faculty of Law from 2013 to 2017. Between February 2017 and November 2024, Our Star also served as the Chairman of the Governing Board of the Ghana Refugee Board (GRB) where he provided effective policy leadership in the management of complex refugee issues, led and guided the refugee status determination processes of the GRB, trained staff of GRB in leadership governance and compliance, and represented Ghana at several meetings of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Our Star was a Commissioner for Human Rights in British Columbia, Canada, from 1992 to 1997, and subsequently as an Adjudicator with the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board. He has lectured at several Canadian universities and as an Adjunct Professor at the prestigious School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada, where he earned a PhD in Criminology in 1994.

He has extensive experience in conflict resolution (mediation, conciliation and arbitration), investigations, adjudication, corporate governance and inter-group relations management. In 1992, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia appointed our Star as a Member of the statutory Provincial Multicultural Advisory Council. In November 1995, our Star was honoured by the Vancouver Multicultural Society with its much-coveted Distinguished Public Service Award. He was also the recipient of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jnr. Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to race relations in Canada from the National Black Coalition of Canada (NBCC) in 1992.

Our Star served as the Executive Secretary of Ghana’s National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) from 2002 to 2004, an initiative aimed at excavating Ghana’s ugly past of human rights violations and abuses and fostering healing and reconciliation for national development. Prior to that engagement, our Star served as Chief Investigator and Director of Operations, and Director of Public Education & Anti-Corruption at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRA), Ghana, from 1998 to 2002. He subsequently served as the United Nations’ International Technical Advisor to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia.

The Law Platform celebrates the illustrious, visionary and respected Professor of Criminology, Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah Esq.

EDUCATION

QCL - Ghana School of Law, Makola- Accra

Ph.D - Simon Fraser University

M.Phil - University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

B.A - University of Ghana

St. Peter's Boys Senior High

Jachie-Pramso Secondary School

Juaso Local Authority Primary School