George Boateng is a senior policy analyst at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), working in the fields of development microeconomics: trade and agriculture. He is also the technical coordinator of the Green Industrial Transformation Program at ACET. He holds a master’s degree in Rural Development and Management (International Development Studies) from the China Agricultural University (CAU) in Beijing. He also holds a certificate in evaluating social programs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a certificate in climate change from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and a certificate in New Structural Economics from Peking University (PKU). He was previously a Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.