Dr Charles Anum Adams is a distinguished educator, Associate Professor, with over 25 years professional practice as a Civil and Transportation Engineer. He is the Programme manager of the Road and Transportation Programme at KNUST and the Lead of the road and Transportation group at the KNUST. He holds a BSc in Civil Engineering, MSc in Transport, DIC from Imperial College/University College, London and a PhD in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Transportation.

He serves as moderator of Civil Engineering Programmes in KAAF University college and Accra Institute of Technology and served as external examiner and assessor on several programmes.

Charles has had stints and has active collaborations in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India, University of Birmingham and University of New Castle Upon Tyne (United Kingdom), Technical University of Munich and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne where he still maintains active collaborations. He has received fellowships from the British Council ODA, World Bank and DAAD as visiting scholar to Universities in the United Kingdom, India and Germany.

Dr Adams is a visionary leader and recently led a successful team to win a competitive grant from the World Bank to set up the Africa Centre of Excellence (ACE) Regional Transport Research Centre, Kumasi (TRECK). He has worked on several national and regional assignments as consultant for international organizations including the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ now GIZ), the European Union and the World Bank in countries including Uganda, Ghana, Sierra Leone.

DR Adams has expertise in traffic and transportation infrastructure systems planning, design, monitoring and maintenance. He has also contributed extensively to road condition monitoring for the Ministry of Roads and Highways, Parking planning and management in cities in Ghana and served as Technical auditor on transportation projects. He is a sought after conference speaker and participated and organized several national and international conferences on Transportation and Civil engineering.

Ing. Dr Charles Adams is the President Elect of the Ghana Institution of Engineering and an Executive committee member. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Institution of Engineering and a National Councillor. He Chairs the GhIE Technical committee on the Ghana Infrastructure Report Card and the Publications committees.