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Rev. Daniel Adjepong Nyarko is a full Professor of Business Administration, Accounting and Finance and the Rector of Nduom School of Business and Technology at Ayensudo near Elmina. He is a former Rector of Takoradi Polytechnic (now Takoradi Technical University) in Ghana. He is a graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon and the Redeemed Christian Bible College, Lagos, Nigeria, the University of Ilorin, Nigeria and the Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Until his current appointment, Rev. Professor Nyarko had been a Visiting Professor to the Institut National Polytechnique, Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire.

Professor Nyarko has accumulated over three decades of experience as a lecturer in accounting, finance, taxation, management and business administration in a number of Polytechnics in Nigeria and in Ghana. He is also a seasoned marriage counsellor with speaking engagements spanning Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, the United

Kingdom and the USA. He has also served as a Visiting Professor in Governance and Administration to several institutions in Ghana and abroad. From 2000 to 2004, he led a team of Consultants on a World Bank Project for Small Scale Enterprises in Ghana.

As an academician, Professor Nyarko has several publications to his credit including textbooks on financial accounting, commerce, and economics and has published over thirty-six articles in various international journals and conference proceedings. His research interests span financial accounting and reporting, taxation, governance, business policy issues, multinational enterprises, technology transfer and knowledge spillovers, and marriage and the family. His distinguished academic career has won him several international recognitions including one by the Socrates Committee of Oxford, UK with his name recorded in the World Register of Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century.

Professor Nyarko served as the Chairman of the Conference of Rectors of Polytechnics and successfully organised the Second National Polytechnics Research Conference in Tamale from 27^th February to 1^st March, 2012. He was the Vice Chairman of the Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa (CAPA) from 2009 to 2015. Prof. Nyarko organized a highly successful CAPA International Conference on “Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: The Role of TVET Institutions” in Accra from 21^st to 26^th November, 2012. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of the CAPA Scientific Journal, Member of the Institute of Professional Managers and Administrators (UK), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (Nigeria) and an Associate Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management. He was formerly a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) as well as a Member of the National Board for Professional and Technician Examinations (NABPTEX). He chaired the Western Regional Disaster Management Committee and also served as a member of the Western Regional Education Trust Fund. He has served as a member of the International Advisory Council of GETEnergy Ltd, London, United Kingdom since March 2013. He has also been a Member of the Oxford Academic Union, Oxford, United Kingdom, since July 2015.