Professor Daniel K. B. Inkoom becomes the first Chair of the Riva Ghana Board, appointed in 2026 to oversee governance Riva Ghana as it becomes an independent member of the Riva Network.
Daniel is a Professor of Planning at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi and a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a faculty member of the International Gestalt Organisation and Leadership Development (iGOLD) Programme, Arizona, USA.
After his doctoral degree in Spatial Planning at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, he worked extensively locally and internationally in several fields including monitoring and evaluation, capacity development, leadership and organisation development, and change management. He sits on the Editorial Board of the Urban Forum Journal and International Advisory Committee of the Southern Urbanism M Phil. Programme at the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His social and community engagements include membership of the Governing Boards of Action Aid Ghana (AAG), West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, (WANEP) and the Kumasi Institute of Technology, Energy, and the Environment (KITE). He is a Fellow of the Ghana Institute of Planners (FGIP) and a member of the Governing Body (Commissioner) of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) of Ghana.