Kwame is a policy analyst and management consultant with over thirty-one years in management consulting and business development. He has worked and continues to work with United States companies that engage and explore business opportunities in Ghana, the Caribbean and Mexico. He is working with a US Consulting firm, Crossborder to attract manufacturing industries scattered in the maquiladoras of US-Mexico border to support Ghana’s One District One Factory concept.

He is currently Managing Partner of ENEVAL, LLC, a Houston-based environmental consulting company that provides consulting services for landfill design and management, environmental assessment and audit as well as solid and hazardous waste management. ENEVAL, LLC periodically bids projects from Houston Metro, Port of Houston Authority, Flood Control District of Harris County, City of Houston and Harris County Government. Prior to his current business engagement, he founded GhanTex Holdings Limited, a US-based international consulting company. The company successfully worked with Electronic Data System (EDS) of Plano, Texas that provided need assessment of IT systems for Bank of Ghana in 2006. Others were Digimarc ID Solutions of Burlington, Massachusetts that explored the opportunity to provide national identification cards for all residents of Ghana. Lastly, Knowledge Reservoir of Houston, Texas, an oil and gas authoritative provider of information and analytics. Knowledge Reservoir initially suggested licensing round model for Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and Ministry of Energy. The model is now being used to lease petroleum blocks for prospective oil and gas companies. No doubt with his strong negotiation and management skills and successful business engagement in Ghana, Kwame was appointed to serve as Ghana’s Trade & Investment Representative for the United States by former Minister of Trade, Industries, Private Sector Development and President’s Special Initiatives in 2006.

Kwame has previously worked as the Director of International Trade and Business Development for Corporation for Economic Development of Harris County in the State of Texas. In this position, he successfully worked with United States Small Business Administration, Export- Import Bank of the United States, United States Department of Commerce, Port of Houston Authority and several banks to support micro businesses engaged in international trade in Harris County, Texas. For fast track oil and gas workforce development in Ghana, Kwame initiated a collaboration between Lone Star College of Houston, Texas and Takoradi Technical University that culminated in the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two institutions. The intent was to establish internationally accredited training programs in Ghana to replace overseas workforce that foreign oil and gas companies used to hire for their deep-sea oil operations. Petroleum Commission has signed off on this program and locally trained students are replacing the overseas workforce.

For about twenty years, Kwame served as an Adjunct Professor at both Houston Community College and Texas Southern University where he taught American Political System. Kwame is a member of American Political Science Association, ex-member of Harris County International Advisory Council and former member of Mayoral Advisory Board for International Affairs – Africa, Houston, Texas. He is also a Community Associate of Brown College at Rice University. Kwame holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and masters degree in Public Policy from the prestigious Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.