Dr. Edward F. Dwumfour is an Associate of ESG Partners and a Natural Resource/Environmental Specialist & Climate Change Specialist with over 25 years professional experience. Before ESG Partners he worked as senior staff of the World Bank Group between May 1999 – July 2021, with responsibilities including the development of business lines (projects), carrying out advisory services and analytics, and supervising several flagship projects in the fields of natural & environmental resources management, forestry, fisheries, wildlife and biodiversity, watershed management, soil/land and water management, conservation agriculture, pollution management, land administration, REDD+, disaster risk management, etc. H also coordinated, supervised and reviewed World Bank and Client country reports and documents in environmental and social safeguards/sustainability/performance management, including providing training and mentoring to client staff, private sector and consultants. He also served as a Director at the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency between May 1992 – September 1998. Between Feb 1992 – May 1994 he served as a Senior Scientific Officer with the Ghana Forestry Commission and the Head of the Department of Forest and Wildlife Resources Monitoring and Evaluation. His is currently serving as a Team Lead for the preparation of ESIA for the Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project (FP137) since January 2022,
In academics, he gained his Ph.D degree studies in Agriculture and Forestry at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Georg-August University in Goettingen, Germany and Specialized in Agriculture and Forest Crop Pest and Disease Management. (1983-1986). His M.Sc degree is in Forest Protection & Entomology from the Technical University in Dresden, Germany. 1980-1981 and B.Sc. degree in Forestry from the Technical University in Dresden, Germany. 1976-1980. From July 1987 – February 1992 he had his Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE). Responsibilities included designing, researching and rolling out appropriate biological and cultural control strategies using predators and parasitoids against insects in agricultural and forest ecological systems. Lectured and supervised students of the African Regional Program for Postgraduate Studies in Insect Science (ARPPIS) in Plant Protection, Entomology, Ecology and Integrated Pest Management.
Dr. Edward F. Dwumfour inspires trust and passion wherever he works and maintains high standards of personal and professional integrity. He is self-motivated, proactive and visionary, and his ability to work independently under little or no supervision is inspiring and enviable. He is a good team player and an excellent communicator, with strong organizational and leadership skills. Edward maintains his interest in broader issues of development by exhibiting purposefulness, lots of innovativeness and open-mindedness. His ambition has always been to work to improve and apply his wide and cross-sectoral expertise in imparting knowledge and in finding and executing results-oriented solutions towards socio-cultural and economic development and growth, especially in developing, conflict and fragile countries, while sustaining environmental integrity, protecting natural capital and biological and ecological systems, building resilience and adaptation mechanisms to climate changes and variability. Edward is fluent in two foreign languages namely, English and German.