Dominic Boateng-Gyambiby has a BSc in Agriculture (Specialization in Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology), an MPhil. in Agricultural Extension, and a PhD in Agricultural Extension from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, where his doctoral study was on Modelling Ideal Drought Index Insurance Policy and the Willingness to Pay for Same for Cereal Farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana. He has competencies in extension systems, out-grower scheme management, agricultural insurance, agricultural contracts, cotton marketing, training, personal development planning, and choice experiment designs with both stated and non-stated preference approaches.
He is a visiting professor to the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, on the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships for Advanced Scholars Program (QES-AS West Africa) on a three-year (April 2021-December 2024) project titled “Water Security to Promote Gender Equity and Climate-Change Resilience in West Africa” at the University of Saskatchewan. He worked as a facilitator and field research officer on the ACDI/VOCA, MiDA, and Advance Project (USAID), respectively (2009 – 2010). He also worked as a monitoring and evaluation officer with Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA) on the Teacher Community Assistant Initiative (TCAI) project (2010-2011). In addition, Dominic has worked as a zonal manager and an adjunct lecturer for Wienco Cotton Ghana Ltd. and the Institute of Local Government Studies (Tamale campus), respectively.
He worked as an associate consultant for CDC Consult Ltd, where he reviewed training materials, developed a training manual on post-harvest management for maize, soya, and rice value chains, and facilitated a Training of Trainers (ToT) for extension officers and training for farmers in the ongoing Ghana Warehouse Receipts System Project funded by the International Finance Corporation, as well as a project that supported the outreach of agricultural insurance services to commercial farmers in Ghana. In addition, he worked for the Center for Agribusiness and Development Research on a study of existing commercial problems in agriculture and agribusiness contract violations in Ghana (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)) and a survey of the assessment of the market and market requirements of rice and the evaluation of training interventions in rice parboiling, crop diversification, and nutrition (GIZ, CARI Project).
Dominic Boateng-Gyambiby worked as an intern and lecturer at the University of Ghana (Department of Agricultural Extension) and Ho Technical University (Department of Agro-Enterprise Development), respectively, before joining the University of Energy and Natural Resources in 2021 as a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Resources Economics.