Raymond is a professor and senior law lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law; administrative law; Ghana legal systems and method; jurisprudence; conflict of laws; and several governance, human rights, and development seminars.

He is an accomplished lawyer with over twenty years of experience in the fields of: constitutional governance and the consolidation of democratic gains; law and policy advocacy; human rights and human rights-based approaches to development; women’s rights, public policy reform (healthcare reform, natural resource governance, justice sector reform, security-sector reform); and community organising and mobilisation. 

He has a strong understanding of the linkages and challenges concerning policy, law, governance and development and has published extensively on these topics. Over the past two decades he has consulted widely for various Governments’, international organisations and UN agencies including the Government of Ghana, the Government of Liberia, UNDP, UNODC, UNICEF, UNHCR, ILO, IOM, USAID, DFID, ECOWAS, DFID and GTZ amongst others. 

Rowland is a law lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Professional Studies in Accra, where he teaches  constitutional law, Ghana legal systems and method, and tort law.  He is also an adjunct lecturer at the University of Ghana, where he teaches commercial law, agricultural law, and company law. 

He is an experienced lawyer and legal consultant, having most recently been engaged in a long-term consultancy assignment with the African Development Bank in Abidjan, where he supported the Bank in various aspects of its interventions with the World Bank’s Global Forum for Law, Justice and Development. He also provided legal research support to the African Development Bank’s General Counsel, on a number of strategic areas. 

Prior to this, Rowland has worked on a number of consultancy assignments, providing research and technical inputs in the areas of policy, law, human rights and development. 

Christine is a seasoned lawyer with thirty years experience of expert legal practice. She is also a senior law lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Law, where she teaches contract and commercial law. 

 

As a legal consultant, specialising in the areas of gender and development, land and natural resources law and human rights, Christine has consulted significantly on a number of research projects, conducting various studies supported by the World Bank, DANIDA, GTZ, the Government of Ghana and the Carnegie Foundation.  She has also published widely in a range of areas including gender and land rights, inheritance and property rights of women, family law, contract law and consumer protection.

As an expert in contract law and negotiation, Christine has served as a member of the legal committee of the Government of Ghana’s negotiating team for the re-negotiation of the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) agreements. She has also served as a member of the Government of Ghana’s negotiating team responsible for the review and re-negotiation of specific government contracts on behalf of the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

She is an associate of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana and has served as a resource person in training programmes on ADR; in particular, mediation and negotiation.

Sebastian is an accomplished certified chartered accountant with over thirty years of experience in the fields of banking, finance and public sector financial systems. 

For the past eighteen years, Sebastian has served as the Executive Director of Gavor Consult International Limited, a management and financial consulting firm based in Accra. He has also served as the General Manager, and now Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Allied Oil Company Limited, Ghana’s first indigenous private oil marketing company.

He has consulted for a number of Governments’ including the Government of Liberia and Sierra Leone; implementing zero-based budgeting systems and producing Internal Audit Manuals. 

Sebastian is a former lecturer of the Institute of Bankers in Accountancy, Management and Investment and has written manuals on accountancy for both academics and professionals.