Frank Adu

Dr. Frank Adu is a Transformation Fellow at ACET. He works with the Ministry of Finance in Ghana, where he supports the Ghana government’s post-COVID-19 revitalization strategy program through research and analysis. He holds an undergraduate and Master of Philosophy degree in Economics from the Department of Economics KNUST and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa. Frank also holds an LLB from the GIMPA law school and an LLM in investment law from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He has many years of experience in econometric modeling, forecasting, statistical analysis, and project management. His research has contributed to understanding the time-series properties of government spending and revenue, modeling financial and economic data. He has a profound interest in Public Financial management, natural resource policy, and the interface between good governance and fiscal management. He has provided policy inputs to national and international blueprints and plans to improve welfare, such as Ghana’s mining policy, petroleum oil and gas sector management, and tax policy reforms.

Frank is skilled in conceptualizing and conducting economic analyses and deriving policy-relevant findings. Academically, he has worked and published widely in high-powered journals on public finance and natural resource issues, particularly on tax buoyancy and elasticity, the mediation effect of good governance on domestic resource mobilization, government spending and growth, revenue systems, and distribution. These publications have contributed to academic and policy debates on many fronts, including the revenue negotiation argument, financial stability, fiscal sustainability, financial market development, capital flows in SSA, and institutional development.