Leadership
Our leadership team brings together expertise across sustainability, cumulative effects assessment, municipal finance, engineering, and responsible AI. Each member is genuinely authoritative in a specific domain, with published research, applied engagements, and external contributions that go beyond the firm.
John Boakye-Danquah, PhD
President & CEO | Founder | Editorial Lead, Insights
Leads Globe & Systems as founding President and CEO, with direct responsibility for strategy, the firm’s advisory practice, training, the Mining Governance and Innovation Lab.
Signature Expertise
Decentralized mining governance. Systems Thinking. Transdisciplinary Public Policy. Social Innovation
John’s work centres on a single, consequential question: how do resource-dependent communities and governments build durable, fair arrangements for living with the ecosystems that sustain them? Through twenty-plus peer-reviewed publications, applied engagements with local and municipal governments, and active media commentary, he has advanced a clear thesis: decentralized, community-grounded governance—informed by science and fiscal reality—offers a more durable path than national crackdowns or top-down technical fixes.
A trained transdisciplinary scientist, he integrates natural resource management, impact assessment, climate adaptation, and equity in science. His recent research includes a systematic review of mining's socio-economic impacts in Africa and critical analysis of inequalities in international research collaboration. His commentary appears in Graphic Online, Climate Watch Online, The1957 News, and GHToday.
Background
PhD in Environment and Sustainability (University of Saskatchewan); MSc Sustainability and Development (United Nations University, Tokyo); BA (University of Ghana). Six international scholarships. Professional experience across Ghana, Japan, Canada, and South Africa. His career spans the private sector, government, education and non-profit sectors across Ghana, Japan, Canada, and South Africa
Isaac Nana Yaw Asiedu
Vice President, Strategy & Business Development
Isaac leads strategy, business development, and partnerships across Canada and West Africa. He contributes to the firm's published work on Local Revenue and Municipal Finance
Signature Expertise
Municipal finance. Revenue assurance. Canada–West Africa market development.
Isaac operates at the intersection of financial analysis, public sector reform, and cross-border growth. He shapes the firm's approach to sustainable local revenue reform—the sequencing logic that separates durable uplift from short-lived fixes—and owns the practical integration of Canadian standards with West African implementation capability. His perspective combines banking-sector rigor with a grounded understanding of how local government finance actually works.
Background
Executive MBA (KNUST); Bachelor's in Mathematics Education (University of Cape Coast); professional qualification in Investments and Securities (Canadian Securities Institute), Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). Sixteen-plus years of experience across executive leadership, banking, and public-sector finance, including roles with Bank of Montreal, CIBC, Canada Revenue Agency, and as Executive Director at Stratwell Oak.
Seth Owusu
Vice President, Engineering & Product Technology
Seth leads product development, engineering, and technical delivery across the firm's platforms. He anchors the published work on Institutional AI and Digital Transformation.
Signature Expertise
Data infrastructure. AI readiness. Product engineering for institutional contexts.
Seth focuses on the unglamorous-but-decisive work that makes data, AI, and digital transformation actually deliver: data pipelines, model integration, analytics validation, and scalable product design. He sets the firm's technical standards and owns the architecture of its proprietary platforms. He is the firm's lead voice on institutional AI readiness—the structured assessment of data, workflows, and human capacity that should precede any AI investment.
Background
Master's in Economics (University of Saskatchewan); Bachelor's in Economics (KNUST). Experience spanning analytics engineering and data leadership across biomedical technology, Canadian SaaS, agriculture, and government research consulting. Technical stack includes SQL, Python, R, and Google BigQuery.
Eric Boamah
Vice President, Geospatial Solutions
Leads geospatial implementation, field deployments, and technical client engagement across Canada and West Africa, and contributes to the firm’s applied work on municipal asset management and mining governance.
Signature Expertise
Applied geospatial systems. Municipal asset management. Field implementation.
Eric's strength is turning geospatial methods into operational reality. He focuses on what happens after the map: how spatial data is captured, integrated, governed, and used to make decisions affecting real assets and communities. His work spans municipal asset management, mining oversight, and deploying geospatial systems in contexts where connectivity and local capacity vary widely.
Background
BA and MA in Geography and Resource Development (University of Ghana); Post-Graduate Diploma in GIS (British Columbia Institute of Technology). Experience across municipal government, Indigenous partnerships, conservation, and national research institutions. Skilled in ArcGIS, QGIS, Python, R, and related analytical tools.