President

Professor Nicholas N N N Nsowah Noamah

Distinguished academic leader with extensive experience in higher education governance and institution-building across Africa. Provides strategic vision and leadership for the College.

Portrait of Professor Nicholas N N N Nsowah Noamah

As President of Southshore university College, Professor Nsowah Noamah sets the strategic direction of the institution, working with Council, faculty and partners to advance the College's mission of forming African leaders for global thought, innovation and enterprise.

Biography

Professor Nicholas N N N Nsowah Noamah is a distinguished academic and institutional leader with more than three decades of service in African higher education. He has held senior academic, research and executive roles in universities across Ghana and the wider sub-region, and is widely recognised for his work on governance reform and institution-building.

He serves as President of Southshore university College, where he sets the College's strategic direction, leads its relationship with Council and external partners, and champions a model of higher education rooted in African thought and oriented to global enterprise. Under his leadership the College has expanded its postgraduate offering, strengthened quality assurance and deepened its industry partnerships.

Professor Nsowah Noamah is a regular contributor to national policy conversations on tertiary education, research funding and the place of African universities in the global knowledge economy.

Key achievements

  • Led the strategic transition that established Southshore university College in its current form
  • Chaired multiple national and regional commissions on higher-education quality and governance
  • Author of widely cited work on African educational reform and institutional leadership
  • Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences

Education

  • PhD, Higher Education Policy

    University of London

  • MPhil, Educational Administration

    University of Cape Coast

  • BA (Hons), Social Sciences

    University of Ghana, Legon