DR. RAYMOND AKONGBURO ATUGUBA
Dr. Raymond Akongburo Atuguba is an accomplished lawyer with a strong grasp of issues on
governance, policy and development, and until March 2015 was the Executive Secretary to the President
of the Republic of Ghana. Dr. Atuguba has over 20 years of experience in the fields of constitutional
governance and the consolidation of democratic gains; law and policy advocacy; public policy reform
(healthcare reform, natural resource governance, justice sector reform, police reform); and rights-based
approaches to development.
From January 2010 to August 2012, he served as the Executive Secretary and Principal Researcher to
the Constitution Review Commission (CRC), a Presidential Commission set up to review the operation of the 1992
Constitution of the Republic of Ghana. Between 2008 and 2010, Dr. Atuguba was a member of the United Nations High
Level Task Force on the Implementation of the Right to Development.
Dr. Atuguba is currently a Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana. He has been a James Souverine
Gallo Memorial Fellow at Harvard University; Jennifer Oppenheimer Fellow at Harvard University; Graduate Fellow at
Harvard Law School; and Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African
American Research at Harvard University. A visiting Scholar at the Monash University, he also taught Human Rights and
Law & Development at the University of Nottingham.
As Co-Founder and former Executive Director of the non-profit Legal Resources Centre and has championed the cause of
accessible legal redress across all spectrum of society. He is also the Founder and Team Leader of the Law and Development
Group of Companies (LADA Group). Dr. Atuguba has consulted for various governments including Liberia and Ghana,
government agencies and international organizations such as the UNDP, the World Bank, UN-OHCHR, UNODC, EU,
ECOWAS, DFID, USAID, GTZ (GIS), DANIDA, ILO, IOM, FES, British Council, IIED, CHRI, OSIWA, IBIS, Action Aid
International, Plan International, and Oxfam. In April 2015, he became the Director of the DFID Support to the Office of the
President, Ghana, a technical and financial programme at the centre of government charged with policy delivery.
Dr. Atuguba is also an astute constitutional law expert, and has argued many times before the Supreme Court of Ghana and
Court of Appeal of Ghana leading to ground breaking and precedent setting judgments.
He has written over 100 monographs, articles, book chapters, research reports and technical papers on issues of
Constitutionalism, Human Rights, Law and Development, and Institutional Renewal in Africa. He has also presented over
200 papers at national and international conferences on all continents of the world.
Dr. Atuguba holds a Doctor of Juridical Sciences (SJD) Degree in Development Studies with distinction from Harvard Law
School, and a Masters of Laws (LLM) Degree in Human Rights and International Finance also from Harvard. In 2015, he
earned an Executive Masters in Business Administration from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
(GIMPA). He also holds a certificate to practice law from the Ghana School of Law and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree,
with First Class Honours, from the University of Ghana, Legon.
Dr. Atuguba is a member of the Ghana Bar Association; the African Studies Association; the Africa Security Sector
Network; and the Ghana Society for Development Dialogue and has served on over 50 Boards and Committees, nationally
and internationally, including the International Consortium on Law and Development, Boston, MA; the Board of the Institute
for Transportation and Development Policy, New York, NY; and the Ghana Integrity Initiative, the local chapter of
Transparency International.
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