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. The Foreign Policy Magazine named IMANI, the fifth most influential think tank in Africa in 2010. Franklin was named Young Global Leader 2010 by the World Economic Forum.
Franklin 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.
Franklin had his O'level education at St. Mary's Secondary & Junior Seminary School in Lolobi in the Volta Region of Ghana, and proceeeded to Pope John's Secondary in Koforidua for his Sixth Form education. After earning a B.S. from Kwame Nkrumah University in Land Science, Franklin received a certificate in Austrian Economics from the Institute for Economic Studies in Paris and a Certificate in Leadership and Think-Tank Management from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan.
Franklin is an Earhart doctoral fellow at Buckingham University in the U.K focusing on the impact of corporate social investment in Ghana 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. Franklin 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.
Franklin 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.org www.africanliberty.org www.mpedigree.net