Stephan Yeboah

Stephen Yeboah is the co-founder of Development Monitor International (DMI), an entrepreneurial company incorporated in Ghana and which applies compelling business solutions to societal challenges in the areas of commodity, energy, education, health, finance and communications. DMI has launched the ‘commodity monitor’, a business solution across the supply and value chain of commodities: from the farm to the market.

He has about ten-year experience in research and policy analysis in Africa’s extractive sector, agriculture, energy and climate. He was a Research Fellow at the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a non-profit chaired by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, from September 2013 to July 2016. As part of the work for the APP, he engaged in policy research, communications and stakeholder liaison at the highest level towards driving Africa’s agenda in agriculture, energy, climate, natural resources and sustainable development in the global context. He has published more than 100 articles, blogs and papers on energy and climate, finance, agriculture, natural resources governance and sustainable development in Africa.

Stephen holds Masters in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland. He is currently undertaking doctoral studies at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP), University of Lausanne, Switzerland, researching on the politics and institutions of mining and the outcomes on Ghana’s development.