Prof. Philip Antwi-Agyei is a Professor of Climate Change and Sustainability Science, and the Provost of the College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He previously served as the Director of the Office of Grants and Research, KNUST from 2021 to 2025. Philip is a former Commonwealth Scholar, who obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom in July 2013. He also holds MSc degree from the University of Hull, United Kingdom and a BSc degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Philip is an interdisciplinary climate change scientist, whose research involves developing innovative multi-scale approaches for assessing vulnerability to climate change (especially in the form of drought sensitivity) for dryland African farming systems. Specifically, his research uses spatial databases, ecological studies and field-based participatory approaches within the broader understanding of how climate change affects food production and rural livelihoods from a developing country perspective. Another strand of his research explores how smallholder farmers in “vulnerability hotspots" in dryland farming systems are adapting to climate change and variability.