Professor Stephen Abenney-Mickson
Prior to his appointment as Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen Abenney-Mickson was the Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology (SET). Prof. Abenney-Mickson is an irrigation management and development specialist with over 15 years’ experience in agricultural training, enterprise development, project management and implementation. He has supervised and provided several training programs involving farmers and Ministry of Food and Agriculture Extension Agents.
Professor Abenney-Mickson has practical understanding and experience in enterprise development especially in the irrigation sub-sector and was involved in the technical committee set up to establish irrigation policy guidelines for Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Ghana Irrigation Development Authority – GIDA); and the National Agricultural Engineering Policy by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). He is credited with the development of a module for teaching basic irrigation and drainage practices to farmers, Ministry of Food and Agriculture Extension Agents and Teachers of Agriculture in the first and second cycle schools in the School of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences Sandwich Program which was held during the long vacation for six years.
Professor Abenney-Mickson was appointed Lecturer in the Agricultural Engineering department, University of Ghana, in 1997. In 2006 he was appointed a Senior Lecturer in the same department. He became an Associate Professor in 2021 in the Civil Engineering Department of Central University. Among the administrative positions he held, he served as the Head of the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Vice Dean and Acting Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Ghana, where he worked for over 20 years before joining Central University in 2018.
Professor Abenney-Mickson holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering from the Okayama University, Japan and a B.Sc. in Agriculture from the University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. Prof. Abenney-Mickson has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Irrigation from the Volcani Institute, Bet-Dagan, Israel and has visited several irrigation projects in Israel, Japan and Ghana. He has a strong passion for finding innovative solutions to the challenges of food security, water scarcity and climate change in Africa and beyond. He speaks native Twi, Japanese and fluent English.