Benjamin Lantei Lamptey [email protected] ADDRESS
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Lamptey Benjamin Lantei Lamptey [email protected] ADDRESS African Center of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) 55 Avenue des Ministries, PL6 BP 13184, 1st District, Niamey - Plateau, Niger. Tel. (+227) 20 73.49.92 Fax: (+227) 20 72 36 27 Mobile: (+227) 96 64 56 55; (+227) 94864106 (Niger) or (+233) 265121750 (Ghana) http://www.acmad.net SEX Male NATIONALITY Ghanaian MARITAL STATUS Married with two children SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE/PERSONAL SKILLS • Environmental Applications: Science and Impacts of climate variability and Global Environmental Change, modeling weather, climate and climate change, climate change adaptation, remote sensing, meteorological applications to different sectors (e.g. Water Resources, Disaster Risk Management, Agriculture, Health, Energy including hydropower and oil and gas), Land Use/Land Cover Change, Research, Education and Training • Geosciences: Earth surface processes (geomorphology and sedimentology), application of Geostatistics, Bayesian Statistics and Artificial Neural Networks to geophysical systems, research • Information Systems: Information Systems development and management, Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) • High Performance Computing: Writing and running parallel computer programs, education and training • Computer Programming Languages/Analysis and Visualization packages: Fortran, Matlab, R, NCAR Command Language (NCL), parallel programming using MPI • Project Design/formulation, Project Management: Experience in design and management of projects. • Training and Capacity Development: Involved in capacity development, has strong interest in promoting capacity development, local knowledge development, community development through cooperation programmes particularly meeting user needs at the community level by providing appropriate services. Desirous in promoting state of the art tools for analysis and visualization. Very strong ability for reasoning and strategizing ideas, particularly weather and climate services targeted at different sectors (e.g. water resources, climate resilient agriculture, etc.). PERSONAL SKILLS Languages UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING English Very Good Very Good Very Good French Fair Fair Communication skills • Good communication skills acquired from my work as a meteorologist, teacher and administrative positions held 1 Lamptey Organizational/managerial • Leadership (currently in charge of 30 people) skills • ACMAD: Deputy Director General and currently Acting Director General • Regional Maritime University Accra, Ghana: Acting Head of Nautical Science Department; Acting Dean of Graduate School • Ghana Meteorological Agency: Weather Forecaster in charge of a shift; Head of Climatology Division Computer skills • Good command of Microsoft Office tools • Good command of Windows, Linux and Macintosh Operating Systems • Good data management skills acquired from creating and managing Ghana national climatological database and training in Computing and Information Systems. EDUCATION • The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (USA) Degree o PhD in Geosciences Received: o Minor: High Performance Computing August 2005 o Advisor: Prof. Eric J. Barron o Dissertation: The Role of Land Cover Change in Long-Term Climate Change (specifically, modeling aspect) • The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (USA) Degree o Master of Science in Meteorology Received: o Advisor: Prof. Gregory S. Jenkins August 2001 o Thesis: Regional Climate Simulation over West Africa During Summer 1988 • London College of Business & Computing, London, England (UK) Post- o University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations Diploma in Graduate Computing & Information Systems Diploma o Project: An Information System for the Basic Observational Network Received: Division of the Ghana Meteorological Agency June 1998 • The University of Reading, Reading (UK) Degree o Master of Science in Applied and Agricultural Meteorology Received: o Advisor: Dr. David Grimes September o Thesis: Comparison of Rainfall Variability Trends from Satellite 1997 Imagery and Conventional Data over Sahelian Africa o Team Project: UK Air Quality (handled measurement and monitoring) • Meteorological Office College, Shinfield Park, Reading (U.K) Certification o Certificate in Weather Forecasting Earned: June 1990 • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi (Ghana) Degree o Bachelor of Science (HONS) in Physics Received: o Project: A study of the decay scheme of phosphorus-30 June 1984 FURTHER TRAINING • Monitoring for Environment and Security in Africa (MESA) Training on May 14-18, Financial and Contractual Procedures in the framework of the European 2014 Development Fund. African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD), Niamey, Niger. Organized by MESA secretariat. • Workshop on Climate Change Development and Adaptation by Reducing May 10 – 14 2010 2 Lamptey Vulnerability (CC DARE). African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD), Niamey Niger. Organized by UNEP RISÆ Centre for Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development and ACMAD • Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries: Planning and Apr 27-May Management in a Climate Change Scenario. The Abdus Salam International 8 2009 Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy • Capacity Building Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation for Agriculture August 17- Workshop objective: To enhance capacity of Africa on climate risk 29 2008 management and climate change adaptation for Agriculture. IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) in Nairobi, Kenya • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Certificate in Management Certification (USA) Earned: June 2007 • The Third ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models. May 29- The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy June 9, 2006 • University of Ghana, Geography Department (Remote Sensing Applications November Unit)/United Nations Environment Program 1995 o Pilot Training Workshop on Environmental Resource Information Management • The University of Reading July to o Summer course in the Management and Analysis of Statistical Data September (Statistics in Agricultural Climatology) 1994 • Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration/ University of May to June Bradford 1994 o Training Workshop on Project Management • Food and Agricultural Organization Regional Office Accra November o World Meteorological Organization/Food and Agricultural 1993 Organization Roving Training Seminar on Applications of Climatic Data for Effective Planning & Development HONORS • Elected to Meteorology Honor Society of Chi Epsilon Pi, for demonstrated October interest and ability in meteorology (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 1998 • Certificate of Honor for dedicated services while teaching Physics in Sunyani December Secondary School, Ghana 1985 FELLOWSHIP Senior Associate of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics 2009 to (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy date WORK EXPERIENCE • African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) Acting Director General January 1, 2017 to date Deputy Director General o Summary of duties: September 3 Lamptey § Assists Director General in implementation of the Strategic 2013 to Plan, coordination of research activities, coordination and December capacity building activities dedicated to National 2016 Meteorological Services and stakeholders and resource mobilization. § In charge of technical and scientific activities. Provides technical and scientific coordination of all duties including those conducted by the projects. Involved in technical and scientific aspects of projects including planning and implementation of activities to ensure harmonization at the Centre. § Supervises operational and development activities, contributes to the preparation and supervision of Centre's projects formulation o Project Coordinator of African Development Bank funded Sept 2013 to Institutional Strengthening of African Climate Institutions Project December (ISACIP) – UA 20 Million 2016 o Project focal point (“Coordinator”) of European Union funded Sept 2013 to Monitoring of the Environment and Security in Africa Project (MESA). December Until Grant proposal approved in September and Partners Meeting 12 2014 and Technical Round Table held from 8-12th December 2014 (Week 13) – 2.3 Million Euros o ACMAD Project Coordinator of UK Department for International 2016 to date Development (DFID) funded Future Climate For Africa – UKMO global consortium on Improving Modeled Processes for African Climate (IMPALA) – GBP 40k o Designed and wrote proposal for the African Development Bank May 2015 to Funded Satellite and Weather Information for Disaster Resilience in date Africa (SAWIDRA) Project and currently overseeing its implementation- A Continental Numerical Modeling Project – 5.79 Million Euros o ACMAD Focal Point for the West Africa Hub of the AGRHYMET led July 2016 to Consortium of the NASA-USAID funded SERVIR Project date o Partook in the University of Leeds led consortium (World Oct 2017 to Meteorological Organization, UK and African partners) whose date proposal won the about GBP 8 million Research Councils of the United Kingdom (RCUK)/Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) funded African Science for Weather Information and Forecasting Techniques (SWIFT) Project. The amount for ACMAD is GBP 383, 999. Project duration: 1st Oct 2017 to 31st December 2021 • Regional Maritime University (Africa) January Senior Lecturer