Dr. Kwame Oppong Hackman is a senior scientist at WASCAL, and coordinates research and project implementation activities related to the Priority Research Theme 1 (land use, land cover, and land degradation) in West Africa.

He holds a PhD in Ecology, an MSc in GIS and Environmental Modelling, as well as a Postgraduate Diploma and a BSc, both in Mathematics.

Prior to his current role, he was a GIS and Remote Sensing Scientist at WASCAL Competence Centre (Burkina Faso), lecturer at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (Ghana), and a research scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Ghana).

He is a trained ecologist with about ten years of work experience in teaching and research as well as project implementation and services development in West Africa (mainly Ghana and Burkina Faso) particularly in fields related to remote sensing, GIS, and land management where he has published widely in highly reputed scientific journals (See Google Scholar for details). Currently, he coordinates two WRAP2.0 projects (LANDSURF and CONCERT), two other BMBF-funded projects (DecLaRe and COINS), and two third-party projects (PPeDMaS and iGST) which cover fields such as sustainable land use management, environmental monitoring and assessment, precision agriculture, and climate governance.

He has English proficiency and speaks basic French.