Clement Amponsah

Clement is pursuing the DPhil in International Development as an Eni Scholar at St Antony’s College. He is broadly interested in the politics of climate resilience and adaptation policy in Africa. This spans an array of complex theoretical and empirical (institutional) issues extant within the design and implementation of just, effective, and sustainable climate solutions.

His research examines the knowledge and power that goes into the making of resilience policies in Northern Ghana. This involves teasing out subjugated issues of coloniality and climate/environmental (in)justices within the agricultural adaptation policy regime. Writing from the perspectives of local and Indigenous people, his work also analyses how local farmers perceive climate change in their socio-ecological environments and how they exercise agency to adapt to and mitigate the observed climatic changes from below. Bridging research and policy, his work ultimately seeks to decolonise the discourse on resilience and advocate for the inclusion of multiple voices, ontologies, and epistemologies in making just and effective climate change policies in the Anthropocene. 

Prior to this DPhil, Clement completed his MPhil in Development Studies here in ODID as a QEH Scholar. He received his BA in Political Science with Philosophy from the University of Ghana, Legon. Clement works as a Programme Facilitator for UNESCO Center for Peace in Maryland, USA, and has volunteered with the ‘International Association of Students in Economics and Commercial Sciences’ (AIESEC) in Kazan, Russia. He has also worked as a Research Assistant for Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS-Ghana), the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG-Ghana), and the Politics Department at the University of Ghana.