Leonard Kofitse Amekudzi is a Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science in the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, Faculty of Physical and Computational Sciences and immediate past Provost of the College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. As an atmospheric and climate scientist, Professor Leonard Amekudzi has over twenty years of experience teaching, conducting research, providing community service, and mentoring.
Professor Amekudzi hails from Tegbi, in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region. His parents are Mr Trot Wisdom Amekudzi and Madam Juliana Kokui Amevor-Dumashie, all of blessed memory. He is the seventh born of ten children and the fourth son of his parents. He started his basic school at the Ho-Bankoe Roman Catholic Boys Primary School and continued his middle school at Ho-Kpodzi Evangelical Presbyterian (E.P.) Middle II School. He had his Secondary O'Level at Awudome Secondary School, Tsito, Volta Region and A'Level at St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, Cantonments, Accra. After sixth form, Professor Amekudzi had his national service at Awudome Senior High School, where he served as a Physics and General Science teacher. Additionally, as a former member of the school football team, he served as an assistant coach to the school football team. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Physics with a Diploma in Education and Master of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana, in 1997 and 2001, respectively, and a PhD from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2005.