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Professor Dzodzi Tsikata is a Distinguished Research Professor of Development Studies at SOAS University of London and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ghana. She holds a LL.B from Ghana, M.A in Development Studies (The Hague), M.Phil in Sociology (Ghana), and a Ph.D in Social Science (Leiden). Her research focuses on gendered labour relations in agrarian and urban informal economies, African social policy trajectories, and gender and development policies. She leads the Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa (GETSPA) project and has extensive fieldwork experience across Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. She serves on boards of institutions like UNRISD, DAWN, and AJOL, and is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Her academic career includes roles as Director of the Institute of African Studies (2016–2022) and leadership in networks such as IDEAS and the Agrarian South Network. She edits Feminist Africa and contributes to Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. Her work emphasizes gender equity, policy advocacy, and structural transformation in Africa.
Awards include the prestigious Fellowship of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research spans policy analysis, agrarian change, and the intersection of gender with economic structures, with a focus on marginalized communities and equitable development.
