Ronald Ebenezer Essel
[M.Phil. Finance, BSc (Admin) Finance, UGBS]
Senior Tutor, University of Cape Coast (UCC),
College of Distance Education [CoDE]
University Post Office, PMB, Cape Coast - Ghan...view moreRonald Ebenezer Essel
[M.Phil. Finance, BSc (Admin) Finance, UGBS]
Senior Tutor, University of Cape Coast (UCC),
College of Distance Education [CoDE]
University Post Office, PMB, Cape Coast - Ghana
Mobile/WhatsApp: 0277823418, 0268556309
Ronald Ebenezer Essel is a Senior Tutor in Finance at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), College of Distance Education (CoDE), Unit of Business programmes in Accra. He holds an M. Phil finance and a B. Sc. (Admin) banking and finance option degrees, both from the University of Ghana Business School, Legon-Accra. He lectures undergraduate courses in Financial Management, Investment Management, International Finance, Financial Markets and Institutions, Financial Management of Banks, E-business and E-commerce, Public Finance, Production and Operations Management, Research Methods in Business among other disciplines. Prior to joining UCC – CoDE in July 2015, he was a Credit (Business) Analyst at the then HFC Bank Ltd (now Republic Bank Ghana Ltd) and Prudential Bank Limited where he served for a total of six years in their Corporate Banking and Credit Appraisal Departments, respectively performing credit delivery functions (credit appraisal, monitoring, loan recovery and relationship banking). He also worked with Ghana’s bests-poke software engineering house – theSOFTtribe Limited for a year as a software implementation/support officer responsible for software project origination, implementation, end-user training and the provision of general software support services.
Ronald Ebenezer Essel’s general research focus is in the area of finance/economics in Africa, with specific interests in financial markets developments, FDI and growth, household welfare, firm behaviour and productivity, banking and international trade and development as well as human rights and gender based violence (violence against women and girls) issues in Africa. Ronald has two research publications in internationally reputable peer reviewed (referred) scholarly (academic) journal. Ronald Ebenezer Essel has over eleven years post qualification experience spanning across three different industries namely academia, banking, software implementation/support services and private research/project consultancy services. Ronald has undertaken a number of research based projects/consultancy services including
Provided consultancy services for Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) Ghana, to support the three districts assemblies in the Eastern Region (Akwapem North, Akwapem South and Okere) to develop and adopt gender policies performed in May 2019 under the project “Influencing Local Development through Utilisation of Data and Gender Mainstreaming” with sponsorship from STAR Ghana and funding from DANIDA, UKAID /DFIS and the European Union.
Conducted comprehensive baseline surveys on sexual abuse and violence against girls in schools under WiLDAF Ghana’s Girls Empowerment Club in six (6) schools in Greater Accra, Volta and Central regions in July 2011.
Conducted comprehensive baseline studies (collecting primary data on issues pertaining to access to justice) in the South Dayi district (Volta Region) in 2013, Akatsi North (Volta Region) - 2014, Akuapem North (Eastern Region) and Assin South (Central Region) - 2015 for WiLDAF Ghana.
Conducted comprehensive baseline surveys on maternal and reproductive health in the Ga West District (Greater Accra Region) and Akuapem North District (Eastern Region) of Ghana for WiLDAF Ghana in 2016.
A member of a team made up of researchers from University of Nottingham (UK), University of London (UK), University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and University of Ghana Business School (Ghana), who conducted an international survey/research project on the effect of public service reforms on management and performance in the public service in Ghana and eleven other countries across the globe during the first quarter of 2017. The project was funded by The UK Department for International Development (DFID) & The British Academy of Sciences.
Part of a team that conducted a household survey on child labour dabbed “Validation of Protective Cocoa Community Framework (PCCF)” in the cocoa growing communities within the Eastern Region of Ghana for Cocoa Initiative International in January 2014.
As a result of the above qualification, academic and professional/corporate experience, Ronald has over the years gained enormous technical abilities/skills in the design and application of results-based business and social research, familiarity with both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies with sharpened capacity working with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as International organizations.view less