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Mr. Franklin Cudjoe/Executive Director

Franklin Cudjoe is Ghanaian.  He is the founder and Executive Director of IMANI Center for Policy & Education.  Founded in 2004, IMANI is a non-profit, non-government organization dedicated to fostering public awareness of important policy issues concerning business, government and civil society. This year, the Foreign Policy Magazine named IMANI, the sixth most influential think tank in Africa.

Mr. Cudjoe is also editor of AfricanLiberty.org, a joint Atlas Economic Research Foundation /IMANI project to publish and syndicate open-society type articles throughout Africa. AfricanLiberty.org publishes books, studies and organizes seminars. Cudjoe is also the Ag. Chief Evangelist of Mpedigree an innovative technological tool for fighting counterfeit medicines.

Mr. Cudjoe is an Earhart doctoral fellow at Buckingham University in the U.K focusing on the impact of corporate social investment in West Africa and donor driven projects. 
He holds fellowships from a wide range of organizations including the Mont Pelerin Society, George Mason University, New School of Athens, Instituto Bruno Leoni, Evian Group at IMD, Independent Institute, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), International Policy Network, and ATLAS Economic Research Foundation. He has won two John Templeton Foundation awards for advancing the institutional foundations of the free and democratic society in 2006. Mr. Cudjoe was honoured in 2005 by Bill Gates Snr on his advocacy on health economics in Africa.
He has been cited in the U.K. House of Commons debate on aid and development in Africa and by South Africa's Supreme Court Judge on patents and Intellectual property in June 2005 April 2006.

He has shared panel with respected academics such as Deepak Lal and former Prime Ministers of Malaysia and Estonia. He debated President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania on colonialism and globalization in November 2005.

Cudjoe is a frequent commentator in print and broadcast media about Africa development issues, including appearances on BBC, CBC, Swiss and Swedish National TV, Austrian National Radio and varied local Ghanaian media, and has been published or quoted severally in London's Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal (all three versions), Bangkok Post, Washington Times, El Mercurio (Chile), La Republica (Costa Rica),the Ottawa Citizen, the San Francisco Chronicle, Netzeitung Voice Of Germany the Ghanaian Daily Graphic, Accra Daily Mail, Ghana Web, My Joy online,  and many others. He speaks to policy makers, students groups in Ghana and abroad.

He is co-author of "The Water Revolution: Practical Solutions to Water Scarcity" (with forewords by Hernando de Soto and Sir Ian Byatt)
Email: franklin@imanighana.com   

Webs: www.imanighana.com    www.africanliberty.org   www.mpedigree.net

IMANI named Top Go-To Think Tank in Africa and Globally

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

In the January 2009 edition of the influential Foreign Policy magazine, IMANI was named the sixth most influential think tank in Africa. Please review here

John Templeton Prize for IMANI

IMANI is the only think tank to have been awarded the John Templeton Prize twice in Africa for Advancing Freedom.

This year, IMANI was the sole recipient in Africa of the Antony & Dorian Fisher Award (Out of 180 think-tanks globally) that recognise thinkanks playing a crucial role to ensure that public policy debates are not dominated by government insiders.

A judge on the Templeton Prize awarded to IMANI commented, "I give them [IMANI] the highest points for being most specific and rigorous in applying free-market solutions to an array of complex social problems. Their submission shows the importance of using rigorously derived, quantifiable research outputs to gain credibility in shaping the policy debate. Crisp, clear, compelling data is the most useful tool to provide to any media outlet, and it's easy for the media to use, without interpretation."

 

Atlas Fisher Venture Grant Awarded to IMANI

March 25, 2008 - The Atlas Economic Research Foundation announced fisherthat IMANI Center for Policy and Education (Accra, Ghana) is the only African think tank among its first class of recipients of Dorian & Antony Fisher Venture Grants. More than 180 think tanks competed for the grants in this program, but only nine were selected to receive up to $100,000 from Atlas over the next three years. Franklin Cudjoe, the founding director of IMANI Center for Policy and Education, remarked: "Receiving this grant from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation is another great vindication of the important work IMANI began 3 years ago. We are determined to see that public policy debate in Ghana and West Africa involve students who should be informed by principled, non-partisan viewpoints." Read more