Charles Kaye-Essien
EXPERTISE
Dr. Charles Kaye-Essien has expertise in State/local and regional governance; Public sector performance management; Program evaluation; Community development; Environmental and Social Impact Assessment; Sustainability and resilience management (water, infrastructure, food systems) and Global South urbanism and development.
BIOGRAPHY
Kaye-Essien is an international scholar and consultant broadly trained on issues at the intersection of urban, environmental and public affairs. He聽has previously worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut. Prior to this position, he was the Assistant Professor and MPA Director at the School of Global and Public Policy, American University in Cairo-Egypt. He also taught at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota and Sullivan College in Kentucky.
His research, often informed by聽life聽experiences in communities impacted by resource insecurities,听have been published in a variety of international journals including:聽International Public management Journal, International Journal of Public Sector Management, the Journal of Asian and African Affairs, Urban Forum, and the International Development Planning Review.
He has served as a reviewer for high impact journals like聽Nature,听Administration & Society,听Journal of Public Affairs,听Journal of Asian and African Affairs,听Feminist Media Studies, and聽State and Local Government. He is a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholar with substantial practitioner experience as a Policy Consultant to UNICEF 鈥� Egypt and Development Pathways of UK.
- Ph.D., Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville, 2016
- M.P.A., University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010
- M.A., Development Management, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, 2009
- B.Sc., Urban Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 2005
