New Staff Appointments: Professor Anthony Owusu-Ansah
Profile
Professor Anthony Owusu-Ansah is an alumnus and joins us from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), where he was Associate Professor of Finance at the Business School and head of the Department of Finance and Accounting.
He has been appointed to the position of Associate Professor of Real Estate Finance and Economics. He completed his PhD in Real Estate at the University of Aberdeen in the UK. Prior to this, he graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana with MSc degree in Real Estate Management and BSc. Degree (First Class) in Land Economy respectively. He is a professional member of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors and an Associate Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy.
At GIMPA, he was also the Coordinator of Graduate Programmes at the Business School GIMPA between September 2015 and August 2019. He also served on several Academic Board Committees and on the University Council’s sub-committee of Finance and Development between September 2019 and December 2021. His teaching interests include Real Estate Economics, Real Estate Finance, Quantitative Research Methods, Real Estate Valuation, Principles of Real Estate, Corporate Finance and Financial Management. He has also consulted a number of private people and firms on crop compensation valuation, real estate valuation, market analysis and the highest and best use of real estate.
Anthony’s research focuses on housing market analysis, behavioural finance and housing market, hedonic pricing and index construction etc and has researched extensively into the housing markets in Ghana, leading to over a dozen research publications to his credit in international reputable journals like the Housing Studies, Journal of Housing and Built Environment, Habitat International, International Journal of Housing Market and Analysis, Journal of Corporate Real Estate, etc.
He is the author of the book “Construction and Application of Property Price Indices” published by Routledge: London in 2018. He is an external examiner to the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, University of Cape Coast, University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, University of Johannesburg, Central University, Koforidua Technical University and Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development in Wa.
Join us welcome Professor Anthony Owusu-Ansah to the Department.
