Meet The New Vice Chancellor of Pentecost University - Pastor Professor Kwabena Agyapong-Kodua

The newly chartered Pentecost University has appointed Professor (Rev) Kwabena Agyapong-Kodua as its new Vice Chancellor.

He replaces Apostle Dr. Daniel Okyere Walker who has served for four years. His appointment by the University Council makes the institution’s first Vice Chancellor (VC) upon the institution’s charter.

Affectionately known as Pastor Kobby, he was born in July 1979 in Kwahu Amanfrom in the Eastern Region. Kwabena attended St. Peters School in Nkwatia, where he passed his GSCE A level. He then proceeded to pursue a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

Upon graduation in 2000, he worked as a Design Engineer with GRATIS Foundation and later moved on to join Nestle Ghana Limited as   a Manufacturing Systems Engineer.

In 2005, Kwabena left industry to embark on academic merits. He obtained his Masters and PhD in Advanced Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management from the Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the Loughborough University in the UK.

After his PhD, he was appointed by the University of Nottingham as a Research Fellow at the University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.

After several years at the University of Nottingham where he rose to become a Senior Research fellow,  Kwabena was appointed as an Assistant Professor Of Digital Engineering at the Warwick University in UK, where he has taught and led research projects in areas of artificial intelligence, manufacturing designs and technology, innovative early stage prediction tools and methods for optimal design solutions, and model driven evolvable manufacturing since 2013.

Kwabena is also Pastor of the Church of Pentecost. Having previously pastored in the London North Area of the Church and also serving as the National Youth Pastor and Leader in UK, he is married to Vida Agyapong-Kodua.

He has written two books on Manufacturing Systems and published over twenty academic papers in leading international journals such as IJPR and IJCIM and conference proceedings.