Lloyd G. Adu Amoah is the Founding and Inaugural Director of the Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) as well as an Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, at the University of Ghana. A product of the University of Ghana and Wuhan University (where he earned his doctorate), he has travelled extensively throughout Asia visiting, researching, teaching, presenting papers and giving talks in some of the leading countries on the continent such as China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Macau. He has worked on major projects with some of Asia's leading international organizations such as Korea International Cooperation Agency(KOICA), Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA), Korea Foundation and Japan Foundation.