Prof Stephen Adu-Bredu
Professor Stephen Adu-Bredu is a Chief Research Scientist of the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an Associate Professor of the CSIR College of Science and Technology (Affiliated to the University of Cape Coast), and was Deputy Director of the Institute from January 2013 to June 2015. He lectures at the Climate Change and Land Use programme (WASCAL) of the Civil Engineering Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.
He obtained his BSc degree in Natural Resources Management from the then University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana in 1988 and proceeded to Nagoya University, Japan to pursue graduate programmes and obtained Masters and Doctoral degrees in Agricultural Sciences, majoring in Forestry, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. Professor Adu-Bredu has engaged in several research and teaching, but is skewed more towards research.
His research work is focused on System Ecology, Site Productive Capacity of Planted Forest, and Climate Change Related Research in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) sector. He has been collaborating with some universities in Europe and elsewhere in various research work. Notable among them are University of Oxford, University of Liverpool, University of Exeter, University of Birmingham and University of Pretoria. He is currently establishing and carrying out forest carbon inventory in Permanent Sample Plots covering all the eco-climatic zones of Ghana, under the auspices of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. With the exception of Sahel Savannah, the eco-climatic zones of Ghana is almost a reflection of that of West Africa.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Interim President: West African Network for Forest Biomass Assessment (WANFOBA) (2016 to present)
- Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (2016 to present)
- Japanese Forestry Society (1992-1997)
- Ecological Society of Japan (1992-1997)
- Ghana Institute of Professional Foresters (1990- Present)
- International Union of Forest Research Organization
- Research Staff Association, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana
- CSIR - Forestry Research Institute
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