Background

Dr Esther Ekua Amfoa Amoako is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Environment and Sustainability Sciences. She has been teaching for about 15 years, from undergraduate to doctoral level, and has over 25 years working experience with local to international non-governmental organisations in community development, environmental management and gender advocacy.

Her research focuses on anthropogenic fires in savanna ecosystems, biodiversity conservation, sustainable land management, climate change and gender and development. She has conducted research on fire and land uses, climate change and sustainable land management in Iceland, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa in Fellowships funded by the United Nations Land Restoration Training programme, Association of Commonwealth Universities, the African Academy of Science and OWSD.

She collaborates with Tree Aid and NORSAAC and other organisations in the Wildland Fire networks including Pau Costa Foundation, the Association of Fire Ecology and Bii4africa. Dr Amoako is a core member of the Pan African Restoration Education Group of Global Landscapes Forum and CIFOR-ICRAF. She was nominated as a Kumvana Fellow for gender advocacy and mainstreaming by the Engineers Boarders, Canada in 2016. She is currently the Director for Gender and Career Mentorship, UDS.