Dr. Gatsi is a Chartered Economist and senior Lecturer at the School of Business, University of Cape Coast. He holds Bachelor of Science degree in Administration and Bachelor of laws (LL.B) from University of Ghana, Legon. He also holds Master of Science degree in Finance and Master of Science degree in International Accounting from University of Goteborg, Sweden, as well as Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. He further holds PhD in Finance from Central University of Nicaragua. He is also a Chartered Petroleum Economist, member of Institute of Directors-Ghana, and Fellow of American Academy of Financial Management-USA, and Association of Certified Chartered Economists (ACCE)-Ghana. He was a member of the panel of jury that selected the 2014 and 2015 Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists Flamingo Awards in Ghana. Prior to joining academia, he worked with the Value-Added Tax Service, focusing on tax-related debt management. He is currently a member of the School of Business Advisory Board and coordinates the MBA Oil and Gas Programme under the Institute for Oil and Gas Studies, University of Cape Coast. He provides training consultancy in Financial Economics and Oil and Gas Management. He is the Founder and Director of John Gatsi Educational Foundation. He served as resource and training consultant on oil and Gas for Journalists by Kosmos Energy and Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists in 2015. He has presented papers in local and international conferences and published in international peer reviewed journals on Financial performance in the Ghanaian financial industry. Samuel Gameli Gadzo is a lecturer at the Department of Business Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. His field ofspecialisation is in Financial Management Strategy, Financial Reporting, Public Sector Accounting, Application of ICT in Accounting and other related Business disciplines such as Principles of Marketing. He is also an Adjunct lecturer in Management Science at the Institute of Distance Learning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana and a Senior course Tutor in Advance Financial Reporting with the College of Distance Education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He holds Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) and Master of Commerce (M.Com) degrees from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana where he also serves as an Examiner and a member of the Chartered Institute of Financial and Investment Analysts- Ghana. He has to his credit, a number of articles in the field of Accounting and Finance in International peer-reviewed Journals and a book in Principles of Marketing and Managerial Accounting.
