Joseph Kwadwo Tuffour holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Economics from the University of Benin-Nigeria, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and BA degrees in Economics from the University of Ghana. He has been a Development Economist and Researcher for over 8 years. His areas of expertise include public policy formulation, business research, innovative and strategic thinking to challenge the status quo, students research mentoring, youth policy and advocacy, contemporary labour issues among others. In addition, he is experienced in survey design, data collection and analysis as well as contemporary knowledge in external debt analysis and other public sector issues.

He has played key roles in many socio-economic baseline surveys and evaluations. He has 9 academic publications in refereed journals and professionally written many reports. He has practical experience in lobbying and advocacy, tracking, monitoring and evaluation of projects, Basic and Advanced Public Deliberation, Strategic Planning, Programme and Project Management. Dr. Tuffour is a Chartered Economist with the Chartered Institute of Economists-Ghana, a member of African Economic Research Consortium network of researchers, United National University-World Institute of Development Economics Network of researchers and Board Member of Youth Empowerment Synergy (YES-Ghana), a youth research and advocacy think tank in Ghana.

He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Coordinator of Research at the University of Professional Studies, Accra. He lectures at the School of Graduate Studies and has successfully supervised several graduate theses and undergraduate dissertations. He is also Associate Consultant of JMK Consulting Limited offering research, monitoring and evaluation services, business development and organisational consulting services for organisations such as Plan Ghana, CARE International, CHF International, International Labor Organization, etc. Again, he is the Managing Consultant of Excellent Research Consult.

Prior to joining academia, he was the Research Officer with the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Research Officer - Ghana Cocoa Board, Accra, Associate Economist and Project Supervisor of Management and Economic Development Consultants Limited (MEDCO), and Research Officer - Ghana Chamber of Mines.