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Dr Sam Adu-Kumi
Dr. Sam Adu-Kumi is the outgoing Programmes Coordinator and Focal Person for the Chemical and Waste-related Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and Frameworks in Ghana. He was the Director of the Chemicals Control and Management Centre of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ghana. A position he occupied from 2012 until September 2021.
Sam holds a PhD degree in Nuclear and Environmental Protection from the University of Ghana with expertise in environmental fate, human exposure, and health risk assessment of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Dr. Sam Adu-Kumi served as the President of the 8th Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and also served as a member of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) and co-chair of the Specific International Programme which is a financial mechanism under the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
Sam currently serves on a number of international committees/boards including the following:
- Member of the United Nations Environment Programme Special Programme Trust Fund; and
- Member of Advisory Board, International Sustainable Chemistry Collaboration Centre (ISC3), based in Bonn, Germany.
Dr. Adu-Kumi is an astute academician and research scientist and effectively combines academic work and scientific research with his official public service functions. He is a part-time senior lecturer at the University of Ghana (Graduate School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences) and is an author/co-author of more than thirty (30) peer-reviewed scientific publications.