Profile for Prof. Eboe Hutchful

Professor Eboe Hutchful is Executive Director of African Security Dialogue and Research (ASDR) in Accra, Ghana, and Chair of the African Security Sector Network (ASSN). He is  a member of the UN International Policing Advisory Council (IPAC); the International  Advisory Board of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF); the International Advisory Group of the Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR) in the UK; and a member of the team that oversaw  the development of the OECD DAC Handbook on Security System Reform: Supporting  Security and Justice (OECD 2007).   Dr. Hutchful is Professor of African Studies at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA, He is the author of Ghana’s Adjustment Experience: The Paradox of Reform (James Currey, 2002), co-editor (with Wuyi Omitoogun) of Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa: the Processes and Mechanisms of Control (Oxford University Press,  2006), and co-editor (with Abdoulaye Bathily) of  The Military and Militarism in Africa (Codesria Books, 1998).