Peter Quartey is a professor of development economics at the University of Ghana, where he is also director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER). He is vice chairman of the National Advisory Board for the Hunger Project (Ghana), a board member for Agricultural Development Bank Ltd and executive chairman of the Startrite Montessori School Ltd. Quartey has extensively published his research on the financial and monetary sector, private sector development, development finance, migration and remittances and poverty analysis. He has consulted for both local and international institutions including the World Bank, African Development Bank, OECD, USAID, Overseas Development Institute, DFID and many others. He is a member of the African Economic Research Consortium and the Global Development Network. Quartey holds a Ph.D. in development economics from the University of Manchester.