Raymond Kudzawu-D’Pherdd is with the School of Mines and Built Environment as a member of Convocation at University of Energy and Natural Resources. He also assist the Department of Climate Change and Atmospheric Science at the School of Geoscience.

He is a geoscientist by training with 20 years of experience in mineral exploration and mining, and in capacity building in the extractive industry. Coming from Industry, he has been engaged in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Nigeria on numerous extractive industry projects and in various managerial, administrative and coordinating capacities with oversight responsibilities on projects with budgets as much as $3M. He was the General Secretary of the Ghana Institution of Geoscientists between 2016 and 2019. He was also the General Secretary of the Accra Mining Network from 2015 to 2020 became the AMN Vice President in 2020. He is a fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) and a Member of the Society of Mining Professors (SOMP), an international academic community of researchers and teachers of mining. He is a 2016 awardee of Emerging Leaders in Africa Mining. He is an alumni of the University of Ghana-Legon, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology-Kumasi, Australia National University-Canberra and University of Queensland-Brisbane.

His interest are areas are in mineral exploration (from greenfields to brownfields), value addition to beneficiation and sustainable mining. He also advocates for gender mainstreaming.