Dr. Daniel Tutu Benefoh (PhD) is an Acting Director at the Climate Change Unit of Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He has been with the Agency since May 2001 and presently serves as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) National Focal Person for Ghana. Dr. Benefoh is involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and UNFCCC negotiations with a focus on methodological issues, mitigation, transparency, and carbon markets. Within the Global Methane Initiative (GMI), he represents Ghana on the Steering Committee and the Biogas Subcommittee. He is also Ghana’s alternate Focal Person for the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC). Dr. Benefoh is a part-time lecturer in Carbon Accounting and Management at the University of Ghana, Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies and works across governmental teams, local government, and the private sector. He has an academic degree in related fields in environment, energy and natural resource from the University of Ghana, the University of Twente, Netherlands, and the University of Bonn in Germany
