Dr Emefa J.A. Takyi-Amoako

Our Founder & CEO

Dr Emefa J.A. Takyi-Amoako is the Founder and CEO of Attaining the Peak (ATP) Africa and Oxford ATP Club (https://www.oxfordatp.club/), which provide support and help to students from different backgrounds to unlock and develop their intellectual and professional potential to the highest level for the benefit of not only themselves but also society in general. She is an Education Consultant, an Academic, a Senior Quality Expert and a Researcher. Emefa is an expert on education, skills/training and youth development in the UK and African countries including Ghana. She develops and implements educational enrichment programmes for the youth and taught in the educational systems (pre-tertiary and tertiary institutions) of both the UK and Ghana. She was involved in a £2 Million longitudinal research consortium project led by Cambridge University at its early stages and helped to design one of the three research thematic strands: the Different Aid Partnership Arrangements in Education for Poverty Reduction… 

Emefa was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women (CCCRW now the International Gender Studies Centre) at QEH, Oxford University. She taught on the Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) course and provided dissertation support for PGCE students in the Oxford University Department of Education. She also taught graduate level seminars on the MSc. Comparative and International Education Course, and was a study group mentor in the same Department. She was a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford University, Bath Spa University, and a Guest Lecturer at other institutions.