Ama Kissiwah Boateng

Ama Kissiwah Boateng is a PhD Candidate at the National University of Public Service in Budapest, with a research focus on institutional frameworks for urban climate change governance in African cities. She completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Urban Management Tools for climate change from the IHS-Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 2017. In the same year, she completed an MSc in Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the University of Ghana. She also has a BSc in Real Estate from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science of Science and Technology. In June 2019, Boateng worked as a Stakeholder and Regional Support Intern at the UNFCCC and supported the Sustainable Development Mechanism (SDM) Unit on the implementation of the Nairobi Framework Partnership, specifically the Regional Climate Week in Asia-Pacific. She also worked for a year as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Ghana in the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management researching green business practices, environmental management practices and urban climate change adaptation and mitigation. Prior, she spent two years with the country’s environmental protection agency in the Eastern Region of Ghana, overseeing environmental awareness programmes in various municipalities and districts and investigating environmental complaints.