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George Agyemang Sarpong is the Managing Partner of G. A Sarpong & Co., Legal Practitioners and Consultants, Accra. George is an alumnus of the Faculty of Law University of Ghana (LL. B, 1981); the Ghana School of Law (B.L, 1983); the University of British Columbia (LL.M International Law, 1984); and the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (LL.M Environmental Law, Occasional Student, 1995). He has been the recipient of many awards, fellowships and visiting scholarships; including from the UN (Human Rights studies, Geneva and Strasbourg) and the Universities of British Columbia, Leiden, Nottingham, Queens (Belfast) and North-Western (United States).
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George joined the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana in 1990. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1996. He served for 16 years during which period he taught Public International Law, Law of Contract, Business and Environmental Laws. He also served on several boards and committees of the University. He was appointed an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, KNUST in September, 2005 but was unable to take up the appointment on personal grounds. He retired voluntarily from the University of Ghana in August 2006.
George served as Director of the Ghana School of Law from 2009-2012 during which period the School witnessed an expansion through the creation of 2 additional Campuses at KNUST and Legon. He also acquired land for the GSL for the construction of the law village near UPSA.
He has published extensively in local and international journals on Public International and Environmental Laws, the law of Contract; and attended several training programmes and conferences in his areas of expertise. Among his publications is a magnus opus: The Ghanaian Environmental Law: International and National Perspectives (Wildy & Sons Ltd, London, 2018). He has also been involved in several initiatives as legal consultant to the Government of Ghana, UN bodies and international agencies in the implementation of projects, programmes and policies on sustainable development.
George is a member of the Ghana Bar. He was a member of the African Union’s High-Level African Panel on Modern Biotechnology that provided a blueprint for Biotechnology in Africa. He is currently a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); of the Board of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF); the Council of Directors, BJ Da Rocha Institute, the Daasebre Advisory Board (Kwahu) and the Board of the National Biosafety Authority. He chairs the Anti-Corruption Committee of the University of Ghana. He is married with 3 children.
Sarpong entered academia after a career in the Ghana Armed Forces. He trained at the Ghana Military Academy and the Combat Arms School CFB Gagetown, NB (Canada). He was commissioned into the Recce Regiment of the Ghana Armed Forces in 1973, and served in various capacities; including Squadron Leader, 3 Squadron, Recce Regiment a member of the Commission of Enquiry into the Organizational Structure of the Ghana Armed Forces (General Erskine Commission) in 1987-89; and an adjunct Lecturer in the Law of the Sea at the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College. He Honourably retired in the rank of Major in 1990.
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