Emmanuel Addow-Obeng is a

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ian academic, administrator and cleric. He was the vice chancellor of the University of Cape Coast and served as the pro vice chancellor of the Central University of Ghana. He is currently the President of President of the Presbyterian University College.

Educational and working life

Addow-Obeng obtained a

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degree from the

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in 1981. He returned to the University of Cape Coast to take up an appointment as a senior lecturer. After just a year at the university he moved to the

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where he lectured till 1990. He moved to the

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that same year and was promoted to full professorship in New Testament Studies and Theology in 1996. After years working outside Ghana, he returned in 1997 to the University of Cape Coast to head the Department of Religion. He was appointed the vice chancellor of the University of Cape Coast in 2001. He had a sabbatical at the Central University from 2008 to 2010. The release said Prof Addow-Obeng had also taught at Central University College, Miotso, Ghana, where he had spent his sabbatical in 2008–2010. In 1997, he returned from

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to teach at the University of Cape Coast. He has thirty-three (33) years experience at the university level and is an ordained minister of the

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. He is married with two sons.

Publications

Addow-Obeng has published several books and articles in several national and international journals as well as served on several National and International Boards and committee. He has also authored chapters in books as well as edited books.

Awards

* Bruce and Fraser Award of the University of Aberdeen * Order of Volta of the Republic of Ghana * Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, University of Cape Coast * Doctors Honoris from the University of Aberdeen (UK)

References

Living people Ghanaian Presbyterians Vice-Chancellors of universities in Ghana Academic staff of the University of Cape Coast Academic staff of Moi University Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Ghanaian clergy Academic staff of the University of Ilorin Academic staff of Central University, Ghana Year of birth missing (living people) Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cape Coast {{Ghana-bio-stub