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Randolf Wilson

Programme of study: PhD. Highway and Transportation Engineering | Year 2

Biography

Officially, I am Randolf Wilson but I am affectionately called Randy Wilson in all circles of my life. I am a Development Planner who has worked in the Local Government Service of Ghana since 2001. I had my BSc in Development Planning at KNUST in 1998 and enrolled again for my MSc in Development Policy and Planning from 2003-2006. I had another MSc in Urban Management and Development from the Institute of Housing and Urban Management Studies (IHS-Erasmus University-Rotterdam) in 2013 and a couple of other short courses both local and foreign institutions including Urban Economic Development from Galillee College in Israel, Project Management from ICA London, Comprehensive Urban Transport Planning and Management from JICA Institute in Tokyo, Japan in 2017 etc.

I am currently the Head of the Transport Department of KMA after working as the Head of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation on the World Bank/AFD/GEF sponsored Urban Transport Project from 2009 to 2014 and then till 2017 when I was made the substantive head of department. As part of my commitment to duty, I serve as the coordinator for Urban Mobility Projects in KMA; overseeing projects such as Africa Smart Towns Network (ASToN – 2019-2022), MobilizeYourCity (2019-2020) and Kumasi Transport Enhance Project with sponsorship from AFD, Healthy Cities Road Safety projects with Bloomberg Philanthropies (2019-2020) and others sponsored by JICA and the World Bank. Apart from these, I worked on part time basis with Newmont Ghana Gold on their Ahafo and Akyem Mining Resettlement projects from 2003 – 2006. I took a time lecturing appointment at the Christian Service University in Introduction to Transportation Planning and have been getting involved in other short part time projects in the fields of development planning.

Career Aspirations

The underlying factor for taking up the PhD study is to find solution to the major challenge I’m facing in my career; - lack of or inadequate database for the planning and management. To use in transport planning and management of the city. There is no ‘blue print’ on the basis of academic or industrial standards that can show how transport policy formulation, governance or projections could be carried or adopted by the Assembly or any professional who wants to do so anywhere in the country. Previous attempts at these have resulted in piecemeal approaches as the academic or literature base is not established well for replication.

‘Perfection is what a champion strives to achieve’. This is my personal goal in life and I have always been taking up challenges and opportunities that will help me improve upon my profession as a Development Planner. I have the opinion that to be a better practitioner, one must learn. My intention therefore is to educate myself well enough to contribute more to improving the conditions of urban dwellers in Ghana.

There is no end to knowledge acquisition. You stop living when you stop learning as life itself is a learning process. I am motivated by the fact that if I seek knowledge, it will help me lead a more fulfilling life and contribute to the growth of my society.