George Agyemang Sarpong

• George Agyemang Sarpong is the Managing Partner of G. A Sarpong & Co., Legal Practitioners and Consultants, Accra. George is an alumnus of the Faculty of Law University of Ghana (LL. B, 1981); the Ghana School of Law (B.L, 1983); the University of British Columbia (LL.M International Law, 1984); and the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (LL.M Environmental Law, Occasional Student, 1995). He has been the recipient of many awards, fellowships and visiting scholarships; including from the UN (Human Rights studies, Geneva and Strasbourg) and the Universities of British Columbia, Leiden, Nottingham, Queens (Belfast) and North-Western (United States).
• Sarpong entered academia after a career in the Ghana Armed Forces. He trained at the Ghana Military Academy and the Combat Arms School CFB Gagetown, NB (Canada). He was commissioned into the Recce Regiment of the Ghana Armed Forces in 1973, and served in various capacities; including Squadron Leader, 3 Squadron, Recce Regiment a member of the Commission of Enquiry into the Organizational Structure of the Ghana Armed Forces (General Erskine Commission) in 1987-89; and an adjunct Lecturer in the Law of the Sea at the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College. He Honourably retired in the rank of Major in 1990.