Dr Sumaila Asuru is a Development Economist and Public Policy Expert. He has an enviable record of spending ONLY A YEAR in both nursery and primary education, a feat that will soon go into the Guinness Books of Records as unprecedented in this century. In fact, he was never sent to school as a child, he went to school on his own volition upon realizing the importance of education when he was 11 years.
Dr Asuru comes from Welembelle, a community in the SissalaEast District of Ghana. He attended the University of Education, Winneba, where he received his B.Ed in Political Science and Economics in 2009. He then went on to collect two advanced degrees, MSc Public Policy and Programme Management as well as MRes Research Methods for the Social Sciences at the University of Bradford in 2012 and 2014 respectively.
Prior to going to the UK in 2011 for further studies, he worked as an MP’s Research Assistant in the Parliament of Ghana from 2009-2010.
Dr Asuru was awarded a doctoral degree in development studies by the University of Bradford in 2017. His work centres on the role of philanthropy in poverty reduction and rural development. He has also previously held teaching appointments at the University of Bradford, Highbury College and Accra Girls SHS. He has over seven years’ experience in lecturing both in the UK and Ghana. He is currently a visiting lecturer to a number of institutions in Ghana and also works as a Researcher and an Economist with the WesAfrica Company.
Dr Asuru has extensive knowledge and experience in teaching Economics, Business Studies, Management, and Development Studies in Further and Higher Education Institutions. He is research active in the area of the new philanthropy, social protection and political economy of development and currently collaborating with colleagues from universities in the UK and Ghana in these areas.
Dr Asuru has written for many media platforms (Leeds African Studies Bulletin, GhanaWeb, Modern Ghana etc.) and has published a peer reviewed article and currently working on a number of papers and books to be published.